Through the Lens: Acorn Woodpecker
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The Acorn Woodpecker is a favorite among bird watchers. It has a clown like appearance and the unique habit of storing acorns in a favored tree that is often used by generations of birds. Wildlife Photographer Marie Read shares her experience photographing the behaviors of these lively birds.
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when I see the trees look like this just make me feel itchy
She left out that the woodpeckers largely do this to eat the acorn weevils worms that grow inside the acorns. They are livestock farming which is all the more fascinating.
We have lots of these cuties here where I live. I love how you can hear them long before you can see them ❤ Wake up!
This video made me smile. :) An oak log was brought to our recycling yard a few days ago, riddled with holes stuffed with acorns. That's how I learned about this bird.
I have a hillside filled with tall oaks very close to my home. Within a hundred yards. Im sitting outside and after I played this video, an acorn woodpecker on the hill answered the recorded bird calls with his own calls.
Nice!
I just found an oak tree looking like this I had no idea they did this! Thanks for the video
Took my binoculars out and stared at a group of these guys for close to 45 minutes today. You're right, every entertaining!
I heard these everyday in the Spring when I was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in Southern California. I loved waking up to the sound of them.
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How wonderful to see them in their habitat beyond the congenial acorn woodpecker trio at the birdbath.
We have a growing population of Red-Headed Woodpeckers here in Mid-Missouri woodlands. I thought y'all would be pleased to know that there are at least 50 on my Mom's land just North of the Lake of the Ozarks. They were a JOY to see, and photograph.
that is cheerful to know, thanks for sharing.
Lots of these birds around our home in the Central Sierra around 4000 ft. elevation. Love to watch them flit around and place their acorns of which we have many.
These birds are really very clever
So fun to see this bird
I just love the sounds they make
Thank you for the introduction to this delightful bird. I’d just viewed a video of a guy finding an acorn stash~between his wood siding and insulation. At least a couple of pickup loads of acorns! The funniest not-funny situation, ever.
What an amazing sight the tree with the stored acorns. We can believe that this woodpecker is a favorite among bird watchers. Unfortunately we haven't seen one yet. Its behavior is a little bit similar to the Eurasian jay.
When red touches yellow, it IS a fellow.
Red touch yellow bad for a fellow
Red touch black good for
Jack
You sir, are a man of culture I see🤔☕
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a beautiful film we love woodpeckers we have the pileated and others here in British columbia,
thank you for this film.
the holes themselves arent so bad but its those acorns in there that are triggering the hell out of my brain.
Trypophobia! I didn't know that was even a thing until now!
We have these all the time in our neighborhood, and there are tons of them that like to hang out in the oak grove behind our house. We see them hopping and climbing on the trees all the time, as well as drumming, but I didn't know that they did all of these other things as well.
I just took a birding trip to Costa Rica and saw many of these birds together from La Selva to Savegre Valley. Lots of fun to watch; I agree! Nice video.
Delightful little video! I didn't know about them until just now!
amusing to watch and also beautiful
My trypophobia says no❤️
I live in Grass Valley, CA & I just woke up to these birds playing a funny game where they would fly up high on a Hanging Pine tree & grab hold underneath the end of a branch and wait for a 5-10 seconds, and then just let go and let gravity take them. They free fall for 15-20ft & then start flying. They obviously like the feeling of falling and then saving themselves before they hit anything or landed on the ground. Really funny to watch. Anyone else seen this behavior?
great video over all,stunning captures esp. when the 4 come together to do their open wing display,well narrated
i just love the sounds they make
Love seeing/hearing them around here(I live in an oak/chaparral region of Southern California).
Thank you for this wonderful and educational video. I've got a family of Acorn Woodpeckers on my property and enjoy photographing them. I just saw the first one of the season show up at one of my seed feeders. I have Stellar's Jays come to these feeders too, and due to some childhood trauma I hate those suckers. I was very pleased to observe that the Acorn Woodpecker is the king of the feeder and will run off a Stellar's Jay.
Fun facts : there are exactly 45,569 hole on that tree😊
Really cool video. These birds must be fascinating to watch.
ADORABLE !!! c'est leur garde-manger !
What an incredible bird. Video was well done and narrated. Thank you for sharing!
@highnote606 They aren't hoarding, it's storing. They live in large families so it is not for only a few birds. Think of it as harvesting. They acorns come out in the fall but they have to store them for use at other times of the year. It's really neat to see; I once saw a complete telephone pole filled from top to bottom with acorns!
I remember reading that the inspiration for Woody Woodpeckers laugh came from the Acorn Woodpecker.
We have specific areas where they can be found here in Eugene, Oregon, as well. Most local bird watching groups know where their local Acorn WP areas are and yes, they range north to BC, I think...
What a cache of nuts! These lovely peckers must use their 'hole drilling' bill to open the acorns, heh? What a wonderful video montage Ms. Read. I hear woodpeckers occasionally but rarely do I see them. We all need to appreciate these birds as well as all forms of flora and fauna. Go avian!
This blows my mind.
I never knew.
I also find this woodpecker to be one of my favs. Very common around Los Alamos and southern NM. Great video. Thanks.
Just saw a group of the fellows on a trail near Elisian park which is adjacent Dodger Stadium in LA. It was 4 or 5 of them and they pecked at a tree then convened a top a light pole pecking at it and calling out. Fun to watch them
Its been 9 years hope that area didn't get deforested
Great video! Interesting that the acorn holes are not in an oak tree, but are in a what looks to me like a sycamore tree. Also interesting how to tell the females from the males, I went back and looked at some of my photographs
Beautiful Birds... I Love it ...Amazing Bird and Lovely colors.That is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.so cute. GOD is Great! His way is perfect.PSALM18,30
Amazing birds.
So cool. I was alerted to this bird by the Big Bear Eagle chat. Now I know. Thanks. 🇨🇦
I have a family of them that live in the dead cottonwoods across the creek here in Oregon. They come to the hanging bird bath for water and the cracked corn I put in the feeder for them. It's wonderful to hear them out there and have them around!
Geeze, this was the wrong video for me to try and watch.... I have that weird named phobia of lots of tiny holes! 😂😂
Trypopobia
@@myusername3689 Yes, that’s it!!! lol.... Thank you 🤙🤙
I have a little bit of trypophobia too.
@@myusername3689 It’s a strange one, but no less disgusting feeling than the next...lol
If you have trypophobia, do not watch this.
tabbyqueen2013 I have slight trypophobia to the degree that the video doesnt scare me, yet im disgusted nonetheless
OMG I seen one of these trees today in person but I didnt understand how acorns got into the holes. Anyway it grossed me out
wwhy?
It’s to late
Yes, it's a weird feeling. I wonder where tryophobia stems from?
Beautiful ❤️
This videowork is amazing!
There's a palm tree like this at a golf course nearby, except it's full of golf balls.
Fascinating!
Wonderful!
They're so amazing!
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wonderful
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naif - there are plenty of acorn woodpeckers in OR. I notice them around stands of mature oaks (not surprising.) I've never see the type of granary tree shown in the video, though.
There must be a group living near me in Victoria BC Canada. I hear their jack-hammer drilling every morning. I wish there was footage of that particular behaviour.
This video deserves three woika woika woika's.
I've seen these and many species of birds including Bald Eagles at Bonelli Park in San Dimas CA.
Thumbs up if you noticed you had trypophobia after seeing this
very interesting. thank you.
thank you thank you :)
this was really the only reason I ever wanted to visit CA.
Great video and thumbs down to the guy below me :D
Wow, never heard of these. Thanks!
I also just discovered these cool birds in a park near my home here in the inland empire. They seem to mostly be in the tall palm trees, so many holes they made. Trying to get some photos but they never seem to go near the ground, always way to hight for me to get a good shot. I did however just buy a Woodpecker feeder, going to hang it up tomorrow.
Michael Hernandez they've got tons in Temecula and Lake Elsinore, tons more.
So how do they eat the egg corn? Do they break it open and get the meat? Or devour it whole?
That is amazing. Thank you.
Fascinating!!!
Glass lens? Is this why the woodpecker cant eat from the coconut because of me?
Amazing
I probably have slight trypophobia. Had a very uncomfortable feeling throughout the video 🤢
Acorn Woodpeckers sound like humans trying to sound like woodpeckers
Huh, you learn something new every day. Pretty interesting, we've got lots of woodpeckers by me. I can get 6+ species of peckers sighted in one outing sometimes . Is it grammary tree or grannery tree? Or some other spelling.
Very informative
happpy birds!!!!!!
Awesome. 👍
I've tried to extract some of the acorns with a needle nose pliers. It's difficult. They get lodged in there really tight!
In a park in southern California, it says it 0:24
Really amazing- never seen anything like it. I wonder about the effect they have on their granary trees. Wouldn't that kill the tree after too many years of pecking away?
+Lucian Stern .... i'd say no because they're drilling DEADWOOD
I seen quite a few in hyde park london ans some in co. wicklow ireland when a child
is it really? how terribly enchanting!
Scary tree 😱😱
I am from North East and would love to see these guys (and the Granary). Can any one point me to the location? I wouldn't mind scheduling my next vacation around this... Great video, BTW.
Aside of the work of the Woodpecker in the tree, you can also see the influence of the eternal Mexican on it!!!!
I think most people have that :p
Where did you film this? Which park? I’d love to go see them!
Is the tree harmed?
i'm in portland, OR and saw a tree with similar holes and items inside some of them (it was very far away and i had to zoom in very far with my camera). i read that these woodpeckers aren't further north than CA though. is that true? are there other woodpeckers that store items in trees?
Did they really eat them back.
do they peck corn?
No only acorns hence their name. They are only found around oak trees for the acorns and only in the west.
What is a grammary tree
I thought woodpeckers stored acorns in trees to breed grubs which they eat instead of the acorns.
I can hear the calls thru my walls whilst the video plays!! It sounds like an echo.
It's granary. Great video -- thanks!
The tree is a Sycamore. Granary is the use.
so where exactly was this filmed????
The tree they were on looked like a sycamore is that right?
they sound like falcons all together.
Wow
very much