Solved the mystery of why there was a huge pile of empty pine cones below one linden tree when the snow melted.

I assumed squirrels or some other forest creature, but yesterday a friend suggested it was the woodpeckers work, who uses holes in the tree as cone holder and then pecks out the seeds.

So I looked up and indeed found two spots where cones were still stuck, one in a hole and one between trunk and a branch.

Clever birds. No hands but know how to utilize their environment :)

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experimenting with filters, does anyone have a preference? (sometimes when I'm undecided I just crowdsource)

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this is probably probably half a kilo of pine tree cone

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