Feather ID!

[Sparkles99]

What do you think it could be?! Yellow shaft on a black feather! It’s much bigger than my budgies tail feathers, for reference.

 

[Mizzely]

Yellow shafted northern flicker maybe?

Migration Research Foundation - McGill Bird Observatory - Photo Library - Yellow-shafted Flicker

 

[kadeconure]

I agree with a Flicker. I have found many flicker wing feathers in my yard. Could be a gilded flicker but their not in your area, so a northern yellow shafted

 

[Sparkles99]

Not sure what their range is. I was at a family member’s cottage near Kingston, if that helps!

 

[kadeconure]

Not sure what their range is. I was at a family member’s cottage near Kingston, if that helps!

(yellow shafted northern flicker) They're at least in that area May to June. I can't say how common they are in Ontario, they may be there longer than that. I would guess you still have quite a few even though they will probably migrate soon. The gilded flicker is in the southwest US and mexico