Bird Pantry

Look closely at this pine in Black Gum Swamp and you will see seeds stored in rows of holes drilled into its bark. Was it a woodpecker who filled the larder or an industrious nuthatch? I really don't know how to tell; but in a 2015 tour of the Black Gum Swamps, Forester Bill Gunther called it the "Sapsucker tree". So perhaps whomever is storing seed is taking advantage of another's hard work! - Norma Manning