Bird Watching: Acorn Woodpecker, 1 by stellapathic

stellapathic wrote:
linthicum, I know I have a better shot, one with a larger portion of the tree filled with acorns. It's called their "granary tree" and they've chosen one in my backyard as their storage site. I'm in the process of organizing a "birds" folder so I can find my photos easier for posting to this awesome new forum. I could also go out and take a new one, the tree is certainly filled to the max right now. Had visitors from Sweden a couple of weeks ago and they were amazed at these cool woodpeckers.

DonnaB, was this program about woodpeckers in general? I don't see this happening around here. Seems like there's a community effort. Moms watch the nests and dads dive-bomb the squirrels trying to steal their acorns out of the tree. The squirrels sure don't take too many chances around them, I must say. Can you imagine being impaled by one of those beaks? Yikes! They must be really hard and sharp to punch holes in all that wood.