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NEST BOX FUNNIES!
female flicker--closeup
Someone's been eating my suet!
  Fllicker looking at starlings eating suet
And those someones...
 flicker looking at starlings eating the suet
are still there!



chips flying from bird box
AH-AH-AH-CHOOOOOO!
 flicker stretching its neck
Is that a flicker, or a giraffe?
 flicker with beak open
Oh, Solo Mio! La la da dah!



don't look now! Downy woodpecker under the suet, while Flicker guards from the top
Don't look now, but someone's sneaking up on you!
 bird looks at newly-packed box interior
Hey! Who put all those chips in here?!
 flicker clinging to inside of box
Hang in there, baby!   



peek-a-boo!
Peek-a-boo! I see you!
 not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!
Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!
 flicker-bottom
A "Full Moon" over the flicker house



Radioactive flicker
I gotta stop eating those radioactive ants!
 like my snake imitation?
Like my snake imitation?

 Joker having a bad hair day
A bad hair day.



Flicker with beak under wing pew!
Hummmm...wonder if that new deodorant I tried is still working? - PEW! It's not up to this hot day!




let the chips fall where they may! Let the chips fall where they may!
 bat-bird
NaNaNaNa NaNaNaNa
Bat Bird!
batman

Ever wonder why the flickers
always sit diagonally?
this box is too small! The box is too small to fit any other way!

male flicker "smiling" male sticks his tongue out
Hey, starlings! I'm in the box and there's nothing you can do about it!.......Pthhhhh! That will show you!




flicker doing a swan dive
Hey, watch me do a swan dive!



Female sticking her neck out flicker with its neck stretched looking into box
I'd like to stick my neck out on that issue...[later]....Why oh why did I stick my neck out?...
...now I'll have to hide my head for a while!



flicker face in snow-covered box
Snow? The weatherman didn't say anything about SNOW!

flicker peeking over the edge at the nestbox opening flicker peeking into nest box
You who?.....Anybody in there?



flicker eyeing camera Flicker looking up at camera
Uh, Oh! He's discovered the camera! -- 2 months later...Yup, 'Big Brother' is still there!
Dances with Birds
Flicker doin' the nestbox boogie flicker doing the nestbox boogie
Doin' the "nestbox boogie!"



The Fan Dance
The "Fan Dance"
 shakey picture of a flicker
Shake, shake, shake.....
Shake your booty!



Hokey-pokey bird Hokey-pokey
You put your head in....you put your head out...
You do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around....
That's what it's all about!



flicker looking around from the box starling looking out of the bird box
Look both ways before exiting the box.



The sky is falling! flicker looking up
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!                            Hum...doesn't look like the sky is falling to me!
Starlings get into the act
starling singing "oh solo mio"
"Oh, Solo Mio!"....La, La, Da, Dah!
Who says flickers are the only ones that can sing opera!
starling watches flicker on suet feeder
Someone has been eating my suet!
And that someone is still there!
 Starlings peering intently at the ground
I dropped it! Do you see it? I don't see it!

 

lift-off! we have lift-off!
Lift-off! We have Lift-off!
 starling flying away from nestbox
He flies through the air....
 starling flying near box with nest material in beak
With the greatest of ease!



starling bowing as if in prayer
Yes, Sire, whatever you say, Sire! I bow down in your presence!
Whatever else one may think of starlings,
they are entertaining!


 starling perched on nest box, leaing far into the opening.
Like my flicker imitation?









starling "dancing" on bird box
Flickers aren't the only ones
Doin' the "nest box boogie!"
 starling pecking at another starling in the box
A hen-pecked husband?








starling tail sticking out of bird box
HELP! I'm stuck!
A wedged bird in a great tightness.
one wing and a prayer
Landing on one wing and a prayer.

starling coming out of box
Watch me do a swan dive!
 starling launches from the box
Here I go!
 swan dive
See, I told you I'd do a swan dive!
Squirrels are Natural Clowns
Squirrel tail in nest hole
If I'm really quiet, no one will know I'm here! Right? 		Squirrel's hind legs as it exits box
The squirrel's version of a swan dive!
 Squirrel moons the camera from the suet feeder
Full moon over the suet feeder.

Squirrel haning from his front toenails
Hang in there baby...take one... 		squirrel barely clinging to front of flicker box
Hang in there, baby...take two!
 hang in there baby - nubmer3
Hang in there, baby...take three!



squirrel sniffing box lid from below
If I push really hard, it will open!
 squirrel tail flopping out of nestbox
Like my flicker imitation?
 squirrel tail
Guess Who????????????????
Other Nest Box Visitors

bird flying over the suet feeder
Is this a starling or a UFO?



sparrow
Sparrow November 16, 2004
 sparrow landing
A sparrow comes in for a landing. January 29, 2005
 moth
A Moth? March 17, 2004

squirrel nose at nestbox hole
squirrel inside box
squirrel inside box
January 2005 - the squirrel decides the nestbox is a great place for a nap. Good thing it didn't move in permanently!
Light on night flicker box
???  A Fairy? A Ghost?  ???
 computer plug in box
Uh, oh. Our hardware is showing!
 flicker box with flag
Happy Independence Day!

Adjusting the camera

Our tech. support occasionally visits to adjust the cameras, and gets caught on his own webcam!
 Tech support adjusting the camera
Flicker Cam provides views of a privately maintained bird box in Centennial, Colorado.
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