[TN-Bird] Re: Help! THANKS!!!!!!! New Flicker note

TN-birders sure know how to come through!  Thanks to all of you who sent my 
chipmunk post back to me while I was running errands and getting lunch!  To 
answer one question as to whether I had gotten a hundred or so yet--well, not 
quite, but close!
Y'all are a fine bunch, and thanks for making it possible for me to do a 
little short-lived bragging to my high school chum and her husband.  Wonder if 
I 
should admit to them that the chipmunk hasn't returned?  Maybe chipmunks at my 
house are like cicaedas--one every seventeen years!  

When I returned from errands and alighted clumsily from my car, I heard the 
flicker give its kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-........call from the dead ash tree at the 
edge of the drive.  I looked up there to see it diligently hacking a hole in 
the 
trunk about 25 feet up.  I watched for about ten minutes before slipping 
inside the basement door to come upstairs.  It would kuk-kuk, then peck at the 
hole 
it was creating, then kuk again and peck some more.  That pattern continued 
with the bird kukking again just as I closed the downstairs door.  By the time 
I had put some groceries into the downstairs refrigerator and got upstairs, 
the bird had departed--probably to visit with the other flicker that had been 
answering from somewhere in the back yard.  When I walked out on my deck, I 
could get past the side where the entrance to the "new" hole is, and it looks 
as 
if the bird has gotten a good start.  These flickers have been "messing around" 
in the neighborhood for a month or more, and I wonder if they have just now 
decided to make a home or if they have had a "failed" nesting already.  
Hopefully, the electric transformer I have mentioned in past posts is just 
their 
"meeting place" for their courtship.  The pair that used it as a nesting site 
some 
years back turned out "extra crispy" after a lightening storm knocked the 
power out shorting the transformer!

Now, let's all go find a fine bird for today.  Thanks again.

Dee Thompson
Nashville, TN


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