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My lLocal acorn lover – A pair of Red-bellied woodpeckers

September 29, 2014 by buffalostevep

This is the male of a pair of acorn savers stocking up for the coming winter. The tirelessly jam these nuts in about a dozen different trees, so deep, they are hard to retrieve. Come December they will go to their cache:

Posted in Wild Birds | Tagged acorns, Arkansas, Boston Mountains, cache, jam in holes, nuts, parthenon, red-bellied woodpeckers, woodpecker | Leave a Comment

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