Bird watcher thinks out of the (nest) box

WILDLIFE WATCHING — My Sunday Outdoors story on nest boxes for cavity-nesting birds struck a chord with Dick Thiel of Spokane:

Wrens and flickers are my favorite; flickers are so entertaining and wrens so busy and such beautiful singers.  Here’s my latest wren palace, made from the slab ends from a portable mill a friend near Lake Eloika used to harvest last year’s downed trees.  Heavy, but comfy.