Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1881 — An Ingenious Kind of a Bird. [ARTICLE]

An Ingenious Kind of a Bird.

One of the most interesting and copimon birds in the Adirondacks is a large woodpecker that bores holes in bark of the spruce apd then* plugs them up with acorns apd nuts of any kind. One piece of wood taken from a tree of about eight square-inches <*>n~.' tains ten ofthe.pjugs, so closely and tightly wedged in that aTtpife baa to be used to force them out. The pieoe of bark looks as if wooden bulletrliad: been fired at It and covered themselves, The general imprejtfo*| ;to that tiie birds put them there an* sat them in winter or later, but squirrel* ltwould seem, would have! the fmt'of» it. The amount of worfra woodpecker does In making a hole three inches deen oan be imagined when it is known that to .the, Pjfeg J> r , "Lm: bored, ten or fifteen pecks of their buls Will hardly make any linprtoiion • Ito w many thousand it Woctld take to the work mentioned, and the consequent wear imd tear of patience. ean L be imagined. , Russia-is to a rapidly, creating rate* 1 /* an ~ j i .a.., j* y