For the last many springs we have arrived to find signs that a flicker had taken refuge for a time on the rafters of the cathedral. A certain predictable spring-cleaning. Ever since one or two of the 52 elderly Japanese men who were spending WWII in the old ranch house made a chilly but presumably more private home in the cathedral loft, there has been a round hole in the east-side wall for their wood-stove pipe. An easy doorway for the flicker.
However, for the first time, this spring when we opened the door we found the floor strewn with shards of wood ...
... and way up at the top of the west-side wall, a good-sized new hole had been carved (where the light's shining in). Rumour has it that a large(!) pileated woodpecker was in residence this winter - and must have made himself a front door opposite his stove-pipe-hole back door.
Hardly a problem for us summer residents, as there are already lots of other places that the air gets in!
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