Acorn Wood Pecker

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!