Hi Tweets,

Russell Link writes:

>I'm interested in communicating with people who can confirm nest box
>usage by the following birds in WA, OR, and southern B.C: hooded
>merganser, common merganser, common goldeneye, barrow's
>goldeneye, flicker, piliated woodpecker, downy woodpecker, hairy
>woodpecker.

Here's nest-box usage with a vengeance: in Jericho Park on Vancouver BC's
western side, a territorial male 'Red-shafted' Northern Flicker discovered
he could make an enjoyably industrial-strength racket if he hammered
*inside* one of the Wood Duck boxes there. Kiddies, can you say 'resonant
cavity'? Knew you could. Each spring I could hear the little bastard fro at
least a quarter of a mile away, and once the novelty wore off, so did his
popularity with the local residents closer to the park.

Incidentally, a pair of Wood Ducks has successfully nested in a box at the W
end of the W Pond at Jericho for the last five consecutive years.

Also, a few years ago, a fellow from Abbotsford told me of a Western
Screech-Owl using a goldeneye box he's put up over water for a winter
daytime roost.

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