An exterminator found 700 pounds of acorns inside in the walls of a California home — apparently stashed there by woodpeckers.
shared on social media, Castro repeatedly scoops out handfuls of the nuts while expressing awe at the size of the stockpile."Bird was a bit of a hoarder," Castro joked on social media, saying he'd never seen such a stash before.told The Press Democrat
that he was inspecting a customer's home for mealworms in December when he found the acorn cache, which he estimates was towering 20-25 feet high in the home's chimney. He suggested that a pair of acorn woodpeckers had been building the stockpile for at least two to three years."The more acorns I pulled out from the wall, the more there were. It felt like it wasn't going to end," Castro told the newspaper.
The sizable acorn collection caught the attention of people on social media, with some saying they felt for the birds who lost their hoard."Kinda just feel bad for those hard working birds," one Instagram user wrote. Another quipped,"Omg these woodpeckers are more prepared for retirement than I am."that the acorns had been covered by fiberglass and rat droppings and were discarded.
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