Is there any chance that the fruits are virginia creeper and not wild grape?
Marty On Aug 22, 2013, at 10:48 AM, John Confer wrote: > I have seen Red-headed Woodpeckers caching acorns. At at least one location, > they cached food somewhat as I have seen in videos of Acorn Woodpeckers, > putting them in shallow, tiny holes in the surface of the tree trunk. This > was at Presquille in fall probably a couple decades ago. so you might wonder > about the accuracy of the memory. It was a pretty striking occasion with > several birds flying over a parking lot to and from the acorn source to the > storage trees, so I'm pretty sure that is what they were doing. > > Cheers, > > John > > On 8/20/2013 7:06 PM, Anne Clark wrote: >> Back in the 80's when I was living in SW Michigan (near Kellogg Biological >> Station, in Delton, MI), a pair of red-headed woodpeckers brought their >> fledglings every year to eat mulberries at a productive group of trees. >> >> More unusual that they would take them to protein-needy nestlings (albeit >> very late nestlings). But robins in the same Michigan property fed their >> nestlings on mulberries. >> >> Anne Clark >> >> On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Paul wrote: >> >>> Spent about three hours watching the Red-headed Woodpeckers at May’s Point >>> this morning. Very active until about 10 am. Saw an interesting sequence >>> when a Merlin made a pass at the nest cavity,, actually several passes to >>> which the adult RHW responded with loud calls and some defensive attacks. >>> Thereafter, the pair were on sentry duty, one in an adjacent cavity >>> watching south and the other to the north in a tree along the river. The >>> Merlin was in the area for about 5 minutes. They stayed on alert for about >>> 20 minutes longer before resuming activity. >>> >>> More interesting was a discovery on what they are bringing into the nest >>> cavity. (Have not yet seen chicks at the opening. Has anyone?) While >>> sometimes, I can see that they are bringing insects such as dragonflies, at >>> other times it appeared to be round objects. Did not seem possible to be >>> acorns. Now, I’ve posted some images on my blog >>> (http://birds-n-blooms.blogspot.com/) which show an adult bringing wild >>> grapes to the cavity. There are ripe grapes on the vines in the area. On my >>> first visit (July 24), I recorded an adult picking Woody Nightshade berries >>> from vines at the base of dead trees to the north east of the nest tree. >>> Had not expected woodpeckers to be eating fruit. >>> >>> Paul Schmitt >>> -- >>> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >>> Welcome and Basics >>> Rules and Information >>> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >>> Archives: >>> The Mail Archive >>> Surfbirds >>> BirdingOnThe.Net >>> Please submit your observations to eBird! >>> -- >> >> -- >> Cayugabirds-L List Info: >> Welcome and Basics >> Rules and Information >> Subscribe, Configuration and Leave >> Archives: >> The Mail Archive >> Surfbirds >> BirdingOnThe.Net >> Please submit your observations to eBird! >> -- > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- > <confer.vcf> -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
