Flicker news!

Okay, so I am a geek, but I am really into the Northern flicker, my favorite woodpecker. I about had a breakdown when I noticed one poking for ants in my back yard. I live in the Mississippi neighborhood in North Portland, which is pretty urban. Walking to breakfast on Saturday, I heard the flicker's distinctive "wicka wicka wicka" call LOUD right on Mississippi Ave. I looked up and saw a male flicker (the boys have red spots on each cheek) ducking into a hole in a telephone pole. At the foot of the telephone pole was a scattered heap of wood fragments, clearly whittled out by the flicker, who had built himself a nest. I've seen and heard these beautiful birds all over the neighborhood, but I've never seen the place one calls home. The male excavates a cavity nest, then tries to woo a sweetie to live there with eggs. Ramona and I are walking by a couple of times a day to see if he's home, and shamelessly pointing him out to passersby when he is. I think he should be our neighborhood mascot, and he needs a name. Any ideas? I think this will be my summer project with Ramona--keeping track of this woodpecker, taking some pictures, and watching to see whether he finds a lady woodpecker to have a family with.