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i live in the pinyon juniper and oak brush area, I get flickers through here in the spring and fall. Just north of here in the pines and spruce forest the flickers are thick in the summer. so i assume they are migrating to the mountains in hot weather and south of here in winter. It's western Colorado so i get the red shafted flickers but i had a surprise the other day and had a yellow shafted flicker eating on the woodpecker block, I.ve been told that the red and western and the yellow are eastern usa.

thanks! (& please, no stones for wasting bandwith for thank-you notes. besides being a southerner, i figured i oughta be polite to follow-up my 1st post & a quick response......!)

We have a large creek meandering through our large property. I saw a couple wood ducks one year, but I'm not sure a stream is that attractive to them. I thought of putting up a couple nesting boxes on top of the bank........but don't you think they would need something more stable....like a pond/lake? This creek floods badly a couple times a year. It would never get as high as a nest box, but still........ What do you think?