Snail nesting inside a palm tree trunk

@Cindy,I realised that!

@ Cindy, I added my snail spottings to the Garden Snail mission.Do you think that if the mission was" Land Snails of the world" we could include more species?

@ Meik,we have many Acorn wood peckers around here and this home probably occupied an acorn before!

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2293#top

The snails are very likely living inside an acorn wood peckers granary.There was a great study audubon posted a few months ago... Something like the average acorn is aged for two years plus a few months and moved EIGHT times. If they keep them in supertight holes no other animal can take them as only their beaks can pull them out.