A Winter's Stash - wrecked

[7rider]

We feed the birds in our backyard. One thing we've observed is that some birds don't eat the nuts presented but take them and fly off to a nearby tree or some other spot. We've found random peanuts in our truck's bike rack, on the edge of bricks on our house and other strange spots.

Well, yesterday was pretty warm. And the hibernating - and invasive - stink bugs that have taken up residence in a kitchen casement window were stirring. So, I cranked open a window to flick the bugs out, and this is what I saw:

(next to those squished stink bugs...) It's a pile of about 75 peanuts, each individually deposited by one very industrious bird - likely a tufted titmouse. I felt badly having to brush them out, but after having disturbed them, I couldn't re-close the window!