One Acorn Too Many or, A WoodPeckers Secrets Revealed!

This Microwave communications system didn't generate any failure reports,
Till the day before this video was shot!

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Posted By: Tyrusguy - Fri Oct 18, 2013
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That's funny. A few observations come to mind:

Woodpeckers are enterprising creatures. They found an easy place to put the seeds and took advantage of it.
Imagine how long they had been placing those seeds before the microwave signal degraded enough for someone to notice.

It's been a few years since my electromagnetic portion of a physics course, but wouldn't those acorns be a little cooked / dried after all that time of being bombarded?

Posted by KDP on 10/18/13 at 05:54 PM

Wow!! That's a trip!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/18/13 at 08:18 PM

Woodpeckers are nuts anyhow! There used to be one by Mom's house that kept going after the transformer on the utility pole out back.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 10/18/13 at 10:01 PM

Expat: I bet he just liked the sound. Woodpeckers peck both to get at food and to mark their territory, and when doing the latter they like to go for "branches" that make a loud noise.

Posted by Richard Bos on 10/19/13 at 06:49 AM

I bet if we opened up Tyrusguy's head we'd see quite a few nuts fall out ... hehehehe (just kidding) 😜

Posted by BrokeDad in Midwest US on 10/19/13 at 04:29 PM

@ BD, I do NOT keep my nuts in my head! They are close to my brain though! :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 10/20/13 at 08:56 AM

BTW I'm a little disappointed with the comments. Here I give you guys a nice set-up and nothing! Not one busy/big pecker with lots of nuts joke! I mean, a pecker with 300 lbs of nuts! come on people! 😛

Posted by Tyrusguy on 10/20/13 at 09:00 AM

a pecker with 300 lbs of nuts!

Sounds like that dude with the giant sack. He got free surgery on that finally btw.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 10/20/13 at 09:53 AM

Thanks Patty! My faith in WUvian Nature is restored! :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 10/20/13 at 10:28 AM

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