Red-headed Woodpeckers nest-building @ Box Elder Creek (Denver Co)

[Patrick O'Driscoll]

Right now watching a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers excavating a cavity in a prominent standing dead tree (V-shaped) roughly two- thirds of the way south from 104th where the 2-track finishes the initial big bend to the southeast. Thee

Tree is 25 yards from the trail; cavity faces east about 25 feet up the left part of the fork. Saw them copulate earlier on a higher branch. One is brightly red- headed and the other a bit more rusty red.

Patrick O’Driscoll

Denver