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O crazy! Woodpeckers hide THOUSANDS of acorns inside the wall of a California home and pest control was forced to remove 700 pounds of bird food in eight garbage bags
- Woodpeckers filled the walls with small nuts after pecking holes
- Determined birds were still circling even when pest control left.
- Nick Castro of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control said it was the ‘craziest’ experience
A pest control manager got more than he bargained for when he got a call about worms coming out of a wall in a California home.
Nick Castro was stunned when he opened the wall and thousands of small acorns fell out.
A hungry woodpecker had been trying to store the acorns in the chimney on the property in San Francisco.
The bird pecked at holes in the chimney, stuffing the nuts inside but then losing them inside the cavity in the wall.
But instead of stopping, the woodpecker kept filling the walls with thousands of acorns.
When Castro of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California hacked into the wall, the nuts fell to the ground.
Nick Castro was stunned when he opened a wall and thousands of tiny acorns fell out after a hungry woodpecker tried to store them in the fireplace on his San Francisco property.
The bird had been pecking holes in the chimney, putting the nuts inside but then losing them inside the cavity in the wall.
He told The Dodo: ‘There were some worms that seemed to be coming out of the wall, and the worms looked like worms.
Everyone thought there was a dead animal inside the wall. It was unreal.
“We see weird stuff all the time, but I’ve never seen anything like this before. They kept coming and coming, non-stop.
‘The acorns were thought to be only a quarter of the way up the wall. It turned out that they were stacked up to the attic of the house.
‘The bird had completely destroyed the exterior of the house with the holes it had made. Acorns were stored all over the siding and trim.
His team measured that there were 700 pounds of acorns and stuffed about eight 40-gallon garbage bags full of small nuts.
Castro had to cut four different holes in the walls to remove the acorns, which were covered with fiberglass insulation.
The process took his team hours, with the acorns loaded onto a van and transported to the dump.
Castro, of Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in California, hacked into the wall and the nuts cascaded to the ground.
His team measured that there were 700 pounds of acorns and stuffed about eight 40-gallon garbage bags full of small nuts.
Castro had to cut four different holes in the walls to remove the acorns, which were covered with fiberglass insulation.
Pest control chief Castro felt guilty about getting rid of the birds’ hard-earned leg, adding that they saw the birds overhead as they left.
He said: ‘We actually saw it there when we were there putting more into the holes it created.
They were quite creative, that’s how we knew exactly what they were doing.’
Castro added that the structure was sealed so birds couldn’t get back inside and encouraged the owner to install vinyl siding to prevent further damage.