‘A bit of a hoarder’: woodpeckers stash 700lbs of nuts in California home

Birds stored haul of acorns over the years in Santa Rosa house’s chimney, where they spilled into a wall cavity

Exterminator Nick Castro was inspecting a home for mealworms when he discovered something … nuts. Tens of thousands of acorns came cascading out from behind a bedroom wall.

“Unreal,” Castro posted on his company’s Facebook page. As he reached behind the wall, the little oak nuts kept spilling out. Castro – who owns Nick’s Extreme Pest Control in Santa Rosa, California – said he filled a total of eight garbage bags with 700lbs of acorns.