[EBB Sightings] Re: question about acorn woodpeckers

this is another slightly out of area posting, but I was recently  
visiting the Botanical Garden in Mendocino and there were a bunch of  
acorn woodpeckers there-- but no oaks. Does anyone have any ideas on  
what they might be doing there? I don't think there are many oaks in  
that vicinity without having to go quite a bit inland....I know they  
eat other types of seeds and nuts and bugs, but I thought they really  
needed oaks and their granaries....??

Lisa

On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Idell Weydemeyer wrote:

> Out of area posting (at Healdsburg) but terrific event-last night  
> around
> 4,5000 Vaux's Swifts-next closest place to see this many swirling  
> into a
> huge chimney is a school in Portland Oregon.
> see
> http://audubon.sonoma.net/birding/swiftpge.html
> Idell Weydemeyer
>    digs
>         dabbles
>             daily          maybe
> Gopher Gulch Gardens
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