. The woodpeckers. Woodpeckers. A RED-HEADED COUSIN 59 the sapsucker eats beechnuts, and the downy and the hairy woodpeckers also; that the red- belhed woodpecker and the golden-winged flicker eat acorns; and I have seen the downy wood- pecker eating chestnuts, or the grubs in them, hanging head downward at the very tip of the branches like a chickadee. It may be possible that some of these lay up winter stores. It is known that the Lewis's woodpecker oc- casionally shows signs of a hoarding instinct. It was recently noted that in the San Bernardino Mountains of California the Lewis's woodpeck
. The woodpeckers. Woodpeckers. A RED-HEADED COUSIN 59 the sapsucker eats beechnuts, and the downy and the hairy woodpeckers also; that the red- belhed woodpecker and the golden-winged flicker eat acorns; and I have seen the downy wood- pecker eating chestnuts, or the grubs in them, hanging head downward at the very tip of the branches like a chickadee. It may be possible that some of these lay up winter stores. It is known that the Lewis's woodpecker oc- casionally shows signs of a hoarding instinct. It was recently noted that in the San Bernardino Mountains of California the Lewis's woodpecker, after driving away the smaller Californian wood- peckers, tried to put acorns into the holes the Carpenter had made, but, being unused to the work, did it very clum- sily. Soon after this ob- servation was published, a boy friend living near Denver told me that a short time before he had ^^^ °* *« '^^^'^'^ Woodpecker, seen a woodpecker that had a large quantity of acorns shelled and broken into quarters, on which he was feeding. This woodpecker was identified beyond a doubt as the Lewis's wood- pecker. So we begin to suspect that the habit of storing up food is not an uncommon one among the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
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