'I've never seen anything like that,' the pest control company's owner said. 'The more acorns I pulled out from the wall, the more there were. It felt like it wasn't going to end.'
Owners of a Glen Ellen, California, vacation rental recently discovered that acorn woodpeckers are true hoarders.
"I've never seen anything like that," said Castro, owner of Nick's Extreme Pest Control in Santa Rosa."The more acorns I pulled out from the wall, the more there were. It felt like it wasn't going to end." Previous owners had wrapped the house in vinyl after its wood siding was destroyed when the woodpeckers stashed acorns behind the trim, Castro said. But the vinyl proved too tough for the woodpeckers and, instead, they dropped their oak nuts down the chimney stack.Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | Omny Studio All told, Castro's crew walked away with eight garbage bags full of the birds' sacred hoard.
In some cases, however, these birds may hide their accumulations in natural holes and cracks in bark. Other times, as Castro found, they pick unusual spots for storage.
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