Date: 6/26/26 9:39 am From: Jeff Hansen via groups.io <jeff.hansen.sd...> Subject: [sd-birds] Red headed woodpecker nest
So I put up a lot of nest boxes that are about 6 in square and about 10 in deep on my property in Sanborn County. I mostly use them to trap starlings but I also am hoping to get great Crested fly catchers to nest in them. Well I've been seeing red-headed woodpeckers hanging out on the boxes so I put Aspen shavings in a couple boxes. Well one of them they excavated and I just opened it up and they have four eggs. Very exciting.
It's interesting because there's a dead cottonwood right next to where they are nesting and I saw them excavating the cottonwood tree. I don't know why they didn't nest there unless a starling got them. Anyway. Hopefully they're successful but we'll see because I have a lot of house wrens and they may destroy the eggs.
