. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . eggs laid. In California the traveler will often notice trees and woodwork of various kinds, as the walls of houses, studded with acorns. This is the work of the woodpecker. At the entrance of Mirimar, a beautiful home at Santa Barbara, stands a large oak almost completely riddled with holes, each of which has been made to hold an acorn that has been so tightly driven in as to make it almost impossible to remove it. The theory is that the acorns contain grubs which are to the woodpeckers taste, and which can be taken as occa-sion demands. That th
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . eggs laid. In California the traveler will often notice trees and woodwork of various kinds, as the walls of houses, studded with acorns. This is the work of the woodpecker. At the entrance of Mirimar, a beautiful home at Santa Barbara, stands a large oak almost completely riddled with holes, each of which has been made to hold an acorn that has been so tightly driven in as to make it almost impossible to remove it. The theory is that the acorns contain grubs which are to the woodpeckers taste, and which can be taken as occa-sion demands. That the birds travel long distances to secure the acorns is shown at Mt. Pizarro, where many acorn storehouses are seen,all the seeds having beenbrought from the mountains,thirty miles distant. Eachacorn required this long flight,besides the labor of boringthe hole the exact size. A valuable bird to theorchardist is the yellow-billed cuckoo (Fig. 191), which destroys vast numbers of worms injurious to the trees. It is a large, conspicuous bird with. FiG. 190. — PlLEATED Woodpecker.
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