Posted by steve siegel on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
As a guy who was about to hop on a plane for this bird, I really appreciate TAS keeping abreast with the negative information on this sighting. What I found unusual was that for a bird seen in a kettle of Black Vultures, the wide angle photo showed no other birds. Also if this person had actually seen something like this and then saw the questioning responses, you would think he would have stepped right up with more data to defend his sighting. I have a male Red-shafted Flicker at my feeder right now. If my window were open I could touch him. New Mexico rocks.