Towheeblog

For exctly two weeks I followed the chisel work, the beak brilliance, the calls, the excavation of a flicker nest hole in a dead cottonwood in our nearby park. Got shots of the wood chips flung into the air. Both birds in the pair worked hard, were around the hole after work stopped.

Then today:

The flickers will drill again, maybe this time they can hang onto their real estate.

Here are some of those photos from the halcyon days when the flickers ruled:

Naturwe persists. Over our back fence this afternoon a sapsucker working on a nest hole, in the dead top of a birch: