Acorn conversion:How woodpeckers can spark aflame in young birders-to-be

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I don't know her name. She was about 11 or 12 and sitting with her father at an outdoor cowboy breakfast hosted by a guest ranch snugged up against the mountains of central California, west of Newport Beach. My wife, Linda, and I were seated at the next table over, enjoying the Yellow-rumped Warblers (Audubon's) that enlivened the oaks. By November, the winter's larder of Yellow-rumps pretty much rules the canopy.