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Bird
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box should have an 8 by 8-inch floor and be 24-inches in height. Drill a 2 1/2 inch entrance hole . 19-inches from the bottom of the net box.
Mount the box at least nine feet from the ground in trees with few branches works best. Boxes should be filled up to the entrance hole with sawdust and wood shavings, this simulates a dead tree with a rotting inside. They will excavate the material you put inside fo suit their -needs. * If the flickers should like the '•box, the female will lay 7-9 white eggs in late March or early April. Incubation takes about 11 days and fledging occurs in about 14-21 days.
The family stays together for the remainder of the summer while the babies learn to be grown up flickers. Northern Flickers have only one brood in ~a season.
Although still abundant and widespread, recent surveys indicate slight declines in population. Starlings compete with flickers for freshly excavated nesting sites and may drive the 'flickers away.
TVy adding a Northern Flicker nest box to your back*^yard, hosting a pair of these 1 beautiful birds may reward you. £ Happy Birding!
Jim Bywaters, Rappaha'yhock News Nature Writer, writes /a weekly column. He welcomes reader mail, responses, suggestions via e-mail at jbbjr@rmaV online.net or mail at P.O. Box 8, ^FlifltHiU, Va. 22627.
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