After three to four minutes of pecking at a bark crevice on a dead pine tree, this Red-bellied Woodpecker extracted a small acorn. As you watch the video https://youtu.be/t9n1UdEKR4I you can see the woodpecker alternately peering under the bark to check its progress and then hammering away some more.
How did an acorn come to be wedged under a piece of bark on a dead pine tree? Did it fall and land there, or did something deliberately place it there? What mammal or bird would try to hide an acorn like this?
Persistence Pays Off
Red-bellied Woodpecker
After three to four minutes of pecking at a bark crevice on a dead pine tree, this Red-bellied Woodpecker extracted a small acorn. As you watch the video https://youtu.be/t9n1UdEKR4I you can see the woodpecker alternately peering under the bark to check its progress and then hammering away some more.
How did an acorn come to be wedged under a piece of bark on a dead pine tree? Did it fall and land there, or did something deliberately place it there? What mammal or bird would try to hide an acorn like this?