Daily Archives: May 4, 2010
The Acorn Pole…
Today was another ‘get ready to travel” day. We plan on leaving about 9 tomorrow morning and moving about 230 miles north to the Wind Country RV Park in Rohnert Park, CA, which will put us about 45 miles north of San Francisco.
We plan on staying there a week exploring San Francisco, Monterey, and the Napa wine country.
About 1:30 I dropped Jan off at the park laundry so she could do some heavy rugs.
When I picked her up about 4 pm we drove over to the acorn pole here in the park to see the handiwork of the Acorn Woodpecker.
And this is their work.
What you see above is a telephone pole, and food storage container for the Acorn Woodpecker and his acorns.
He enlarges the cracks in the pole and stuffs his acorns in there to keep them safe. But sometimes that doesn’t work. In Arizona, Acorn Woodpeckers stored 485 pounds of acorns in the sides of a wooden water tower that fell thru to the inside and they couldn’t get them back out.
About 4:30 pm we picked up George and Sandy Stoltz at their RV here in the park to drive into Oakhurst to have dinner at El Cid, a great Mexican restaurant we found here.
Great Friends, Great Times, Great Food. I”m sure we’ll bump into them again somewhere on the road.
More tomorrow from the Napa Valley…
