Posted on 02/06/2023 9:19:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
Recently, Castro was called out to a house that had been experiencing damage from a local woodpecker. The bird, as they’re wont to do, had taken to creating holes in the home’s siding — holes in which to store food for later eating.
In this case, that food was mostly acorns. But unfortunately for all involved, the acorns weren’t staying put. Instead, they were falling into the empty cavities inside the walls.
Castro knew he’d find some acorns as he cut into the wall to dig them out. But what he wasn’t expecting was this:
Castro opened more holes around the house, and acorns kept flowing.
They let the woodpecker be and simply patched up the holes she’d made outside the house. The addition of some new vinyl siding by the homeowner should be enough to encourage her to find a new place to store her food.
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I thought woodpeckers ate mostly insects in rotten wood.
Have you ever seen a woodpecker deposit an acorn?
I have not (I have seen the former).
I’m guessing there are some squirrels or chipmunks in the house too.
Acorn Woodpecker, very common at higher elevations here in Arizona:
That’s nuts!
Those are white acorns, with minimal tannins. Human edible. Many recipes online.
Yes to your last sentence
That bird 🕊️🐦 is nutty!
When I was a kid near Minneapolis, Minnesota, a neighbor kid I knew collected a big box of acorns from the oak trees and stored them under his bed. Some time later there was a big box of worms that came out of those acorns....
Nature was here first.
That woodpecker is a real nutjob!
Reminds me of an old Warner Brothers Elmer Fudd cartoon with the two goofy gophers Mac and Tosh.
That was my favorite episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Once I rigged a cupboard in my little sister’s apartment to pour out walnuts when she opened it, because she loved that episode too.
Owned a large, log home in Tennessee a few years ago. The squirrels and woodpeckers loved it.
Never again.
Poor bird must have been like, “Where the #&%$ are they going?? I know I put them here...” And I know just how she feels, because I spend half my day wandering around looking for something I just put down.
We also had that problem with our log home. A mylar balloon on each side of the house kept the woodpecker away. A shotgun worked for the squirrels.
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