and Michael Price replies:
>Kiddies, can you say 'resonant cavity'?

>to which Tom says:

>Yes, I have first hand experience with the sound.

>Russell, you didn't include N. Idaho in your area of interest, but I'll
>pass this along regardless. A few years back I put up large birdhouse
>with a 5" entry hole 50 feet up in a ponderosa pine a couple of hundred
>feet from my house, wondering whether an owl might like it. No, but the
>flicker did. The noise was equivalent to his previous drumming on the
>siding of my house just outside my bedroom window, but less destructive.

You guys haven't heard anything yet! Wait until you live in a house with a
central wood stove, with a metal stovepipe sticking up out of the roof, and a
flicker decides your stovepipe is a wonderful drumming tool. The metallic
jackhammer-like noise this make is totally unbelievable. My neighbors
are the lucky recipient of this flicker behavior, but it can be heard all over the
neighborhood, and is enough to make you jump out of bed in the morning.
Between the flickers drumming and pileated woodpeckers calling, we have
no need for alarm clocks around here!!!

Teresa Michelsen
The new city of Kenmore
tcmnem at halcyon.com