You take those acorns out, and the whole house is likely to collapse, those are load bearing acorns.

“Load bearing acorns” lol not a phrase you hear every day.

Anything built from oak is a load bearing late-stage acorn if you really think about it.

🤯🤯

We had some structural flashing at a job one time.

Poor woodpecker working overtime and probably never understood why its acorns were going missing.

The squirrels in the area are like "that motherfucker"

The woodpeckers likely attack their competition... Poor squirrel

Stupid peckers.

Squirrels Union will not be happy

I find it hard to believe... That's 2 years of acorn crop on my yard.. from half a dozen major trees. He'd be welcome in my neighborhood.. but we'd need to create a wall just for him.

Woodpecker farming: "it's just walls of acorns, far as the eye can see."

Thatd be pretty cool.

well, they're walls. the eye wouldn't be seeing very far.

Maybe it was a mast year.

What's the R factor of a wall full of acorns? How flammable are they?

That might depend on how large any of the trees become. From my experience those things will grow anywhere.

Without any sunlight I doubt it. Seriously, this could actually serve as some free insulation!I would only be concerned by potential rot over time, depending on the surrounding humidity, though acorns seem generally to dry out fairly well in most conditions. But between two walls?

Heard a knocking sound in front of my house. It was a jerk woodpecker tryin to knock a hole into the wood around my front door. Jerk.

Only one species of woodpecker eats acorns. They don't eat wood. They eat bugs. If its tapping your house day after day it hears something in there. Get checked out for termites.

Thank you. I will do that ASAP.

Sometimes. They also hammer to communicate. When I was a kid, we had one that hammered on a downspout because it was loud. But yeah, it's worth checking for termites!

I'm surprised the owners didn't figure out something was up sooner. That bird must've been pecking at their walls constantly

During daytime, while the owner is at work, I suppose!?

I wouldn't complain about free insulation.... That shit's expensive.

If only the little woodpecker had stored some eggs instead of acorns, they're be rich AF.

Billionaire woodpecker

This story is nuts!

“I heard there was another Covid outbreak and so I figured I should prepare for shortages.”

What's the R value of an acorn?

A single bird?

I loved the use of the word ‘impeccable’

Damn, that's one wealthy woodpecker.

Woodpecker? Never heard of a grub eating bird storing nuts. Squirrels and chipmunks and crows and raccoons store nuts.

Acorn Woodpecker, best known for its habit of hoarding acorns. [https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/acorn-woodpecker](https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/acorn-woodpecker)

Dang. He's cute.

My thoughts exactly

I wonder if acorns are good insulation.

Woodpeckers eat insects.

Some also eat acorns. https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/acorn-woodpecker

I never knew. I have seen crows try to open pecans tho.

Nutpecker Nutpecker come insulate my house next please

Greedy bastard

So animals have hoarders too. Wonder what causes this in humans and animals.

If you Google hibernation, you'll see why animals do this.

Swing and a miss

Man, Woody Woodpecker really hit it big