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    From Leon Fisk@lfiskgr@gmail.invalid to rec.birds on Wed Feb 8 12:15:01 2023
    From Newsgroup: rec.birds

    Hi,

    Read this in our local new source:

    "Woodpeckers pack 700 pounds of acorns in walls of California Airbnb"

    https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/02/woodpeckers-pack-700-pounds-of-acorns-in-walls-of-california-airbnb.html

    I'd read about something similar years ago at a remote radio tower
    site. Woodpeckers had filled a covered dish antenna cavity with acorns.
    Service tech found it while investigating poor signal problems :-)
    --
    Leon Fisk
    Grand Rapids MI

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  • From jmcquown@j_mcquown@comcast.net to rec.birds on Wed Feb 8 16:48:39 2023
    From Newsgroup: rec.birds

    On 2/8/2023 11:15 AM, Leon Fisk wrote:
    Hi,

    Read this in our local new source:

    "Woodpeckers pack 700 pounds of acorns in walls of California Airbnb"

    https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/02/woodpeckers-pack-700-pounds-of-acorns-in-walls-of-california-airbnb.html

    I'd read about something similar years ago at a remote radio tower
    site. Woodpeckers had filled a covered dish antenna cavity with acorns. Service tech found it while investigating poor signal problems :-)


    Too funny! I saw a Nature program on PBS last year about woodpeckers.
    They showed a particular type of woodpecker literally pecking holes in a
    tree and stuffing acorns into the holes. The tree appeared studded with
    them. :)

    Jill in Southern South Carolina
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