Interesting. Right after he did that, she checked out the opening, 
but she had a harder
time landing and did not go inside, so I don't know if the site was 
acceptable to her, flowers or no!

At 07:42 AM 3/15/2006, ryan shepard wrote:
>This could also be courtship behavior - I found this in Stokes' Guide to the
>Behavior of Common Birds:
>
>"When a female is near a male's nest site the male may pick up tree flowers
>or leaves and then repeatedly go in and out of the nest ... possibly in some
>way alerting her to the presence of the nest hole and stimulating her to
>enter it and start building."
>
>Cheers,
>Ryan

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato