Subject: RE: Nest Box Usage
Date: Dec 13 20:38:38 1997
From: "Jon. Anderson and Marty Chaney" - festuca at olywa.net


Russell Link wrote:
>>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.

Russell,

I used to check the 'wood duck' nest boxes at Ankeny NWR and Baskett Slough NWR in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. You might want to check with the Refuge Biologist at the Wm L Finley NWR office south of Corvallis - the refuge staff used to provide the refuge bio with the nest-box-check data, so there should be information there for a number of species.

I can confirm the use of Hooded Mergansers for nesting, and Red-shafted Flickers for roosting, at least.

Other birds I've had nesting in nest boxes have been Wood Duck (of course), Western Screech-Owls and Violet-green Swallows.

I can also confirm the use of nest boxes by raccoons (and their fleas), honeybees, bald-faced hornets, paper wasps, and at least one species of the native bumblebees.

Jon. Anderson
Olympia, Washington
festuca at olywa.net