Acorn Wood Pecker
Melanerpes formicivorus
36.7783, -119.418
Field Notes
Description:
The clown-faced Acorn Woodpecker is a common bird of western oak forests. It lives in extended family groups, and all members of the group spend hours and hours storing thousands of acorns in carefully tended holes in trees and telephone poles
Habitat:
Foothills of Mt Diablo
Notes:
The pictures show a telephone pole with carefully tended holes . Picture number two shows the acorn wood pecker with an acorn in its mouth ,ready to store it in the holes.
Caught in the act!
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