[TN-Bird] Re: Acorn Woodpecker storage site
- From: David Irons <davidirons20@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Amanda Pippin <Amanda-Pippin@xxxxxxx>, Linda Collins <Linda-Collins@xxxxxxx>, David-Aborn@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:57:37 -0700 (PDT)
Greetings All,
Unless someone actually witnessed woodpeckers caching acorns in this relay
station, I would bet it was some species of Corvid (most likely a jay) that did
this. Here in Oregon, it is a rite of late fall to watch Western Scrub-Jays
flying back and forth between filbert orchards, or stands of oaks, and their
storage site. I've talked to people who have torn down old sheds or barns only
to find huge caches of these nuts, sometimes hundreds of pounds..
Conversely, I've never seen woodpeckers engage in this type of activity. Our
resident Acorn Woodpeckers store nuts, but they typically create a "granary" in
an dead limb or a utility pole by excavating hundreds of acorn-sized holes and
placing an acorn in each one. Some granaries are used for decades.
Dave Irons
www.BirdFellow.com
--- On Sun, 4/19/09, David Aborn <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: David Aborn <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [TN-Bird] Acorn Woodpecker storage site
To: "TN-Bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Amanda Pippin" <Amanda-Pippin@xxxxxxx>,
"Linda Collins" <Linda-Collins@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 5:12 PM
Check out the acorn storage site found back in February!
http://technology.todaysbigthing.com/2009/02/11
David Aborn
Chattanooga, TN
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