Hi Tweets

Dan post reminded me of another Acorn Woodpecker story. One fall I was
driving in the Sierra Nevada foothills in the oak zone. We came around a
curve and a huge old dead oak was standing by the road (must have been 4-5
feet across at breast height and probably 20-25 feet tall). This tree was
absolutely filled with acorns spaced as closely as possible, and on all
sides of the tree - I don't know how many thousands of acorns there were,
but the birds had been working overtime to accomplish this.

Brian H. Bell
Woodinville WA
bellasoc AT isomedia.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Brown" <heron-hill at comcast.net>
To: "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] How to link Pine Siskins to Acorn Woodpeckers


>I grew up in Walnut Creek, California, and saw Acorn Woodpeckers regularly
>all through my childhood. They like to horde acorns by drilling holes in
>trees or telephone poles and wedging the acorns into the holes. The
>telephone pole down the street from our house was literally studded with
>acorns from top to bottom. One summer in particular, there must have been
>several thousand acorns embedded in that one pole--quite a sight.
>
> Dan Brown
> Redmond, WA
>