On a cool October morning in southwestern Colorado’s San Juan National Forest a group of
birds with black backs white bellies and brilliant red caps flits among a stand of ponderosa pines
O n a cool October morning on a mountainside in southwestern Colorado’s San Juan National Forest a group of birds with black backs white bellies and brilliant red caps flits among a stand of ponderosa pines The birds are acorn woodpeckers They are busily preparing for winter gathering acorns from white oaks farther up the mountain and carrying them in their beaks to the pines below Clinging to the side of a tree 40 feet 12 m above the ground a
