At Home With Flickers << Back to Feature Page View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame. Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Uninvited Guests Photograph by Michael S. Quinton When flickers are away, others come to stay. A boreal owl—the smallest of Alaska's owl species—finds a cozy safe house in a niche groomed and inhabited by flickers in a previous year. Red squirrels (who, like the owl, will eat flicker eggs and young), voles, and chickadees have also used this nest. Camera: Nikon F4 Film Type: Unrecorded Lens: 24mm Speed and F-Stop: 1/250 @ f/16 Weather Conditions: Clear Time of Day: Night Lighting Techniques: Flash

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