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He's a little tough to see & it was not easy to snag a photo.

It's taken from inside. I had just shooed him away from trying to make a hole outside my office & he was peeking to see if I was still there!

My home's sofit looks like tiny bird townhouses. This NW Flicker ( first tried to make his home here 3 years ago, I shoo-ed him away, sometimes daily, & filled the holes.

The little guy kept trying again in another spot -  every year.

After 3 years, I read up on Flickers and saw that Flickers are territorial and the loss of dead trees is a loss of where they usually make their homes. In my research I saw that I could buy (or make)   a bird house specific for Flickers! So I gave him a name, Pepper.

That's my next step.

He's a beautiful bird & it'll be an interesting & perhaps challenging project to get him to move into a bird house - but I have the hubris of naivete. 😊