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A male pileated woodpecker excavating part of a large log lying across a small stream. He appears to have drawn his head back to prepare for his next strike.

I was photographing a pair of chickadees and was wondering why they were staying at a single tree for such a long amount of time. When the female flew into a cavity in this red alder, it all started to make sense. The female chickadee was considering this as a potential nesting site!

Chickadees are cavity nesters. They may excavate their own nests or use cavities previously excavated by woodpeckers. Nevertheless, it is habitual for them to remove wood shavings, even if the "cavity" is already complete (as in nest boxes). This female chickadee is doing just that.

I really hope this pair will settle down in this nesting. However, when I returned to the site later that evening, the chickadees were nowhere in sight. Perhaps they will return later after considering other nesting sites. Wherever they are, I hope they will raise a successful brood.

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A Pileated Woodpecker works on a tree trunk

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Hairy Woodpecker male working the base of a trunk...

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Work being carried out on the hillside as Aswan, Egypt

2009

A big dig on the campus of CMU.

I haven't posted anything for a few weeks as things have been very hectic for us. Here's an image of a male Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker excavating a potential nest hole.

 

I had seen the male and female together on this tree as I was walking along a trail. I stopped well back and after a they flew off I positioned myself in the brush a distance away and waited to see it they would return.

 

Image created on June 11, 2017 in the Marlborough Forest southwest of Ottawa.

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Opposite The Mint, Leeds

Excavation work under way at the old Victorian Norwich City Station.

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paysage quadrillé avec l'excavation

From December, 2008; four years before I joined Flickr.

 

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Sand flying from the hole as this sand martin digs into the cliff at Happisburgh, Norfolk. D500_83416.NEF

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This Red-headed Woodpecker is busy excavating a nest site. Likely the male, since they do most of the excavation. Our beautiful world, pass it on.

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