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I have seen very few acorns where I live. My particular area has somewhere around an eleven inch rainfall deficit. Many weather systems have split and went either north or south of my location. But it has been fairly dry for many.
I also don't know if the abundance of squirrels has not hurt the acorns? Many people feed birds - but squirrels get the king size share of the food. With more food the squirrel population skyrocketed - nature abhors a vacuum. When the squirrel population gets too large; they eat fruits and nuts before they mature. They don't get as much food from immature seeds and fruit and it hurts the squirrel population in the long run - but I don't think you worry about that if you are going hungry.
I think that some squirrels even chew off the ends of healthy branches just to drink the sap? Sometimes I will have many clusters of chewed off maple tree branches on my lawn. Occasionally I will notice the same with the oak trees. I presume the maple sap might taste sweet to the squirrels; I don't know about oak sap?
Eventually, I presume, the hawk population will (hopefully) catch up with these marauders? It would be great to have another bumper crop of apples again.
I am in upstate SC and the trees in my yard are absolutely packed with acorns. They have been raining down on my house non stop by the thousands every day. My deck and yard is a solid sheet of acorns.
I have seen very few acorns where I live. My particular area has somewhere around an eleven inch rainfall deficit. Many weather systems have split and went either north or south of my location. But it has been fairly dry for many.
I also don't know if the abundance of squirrels has not hurt the acorns? Many people feed birds - but squirrels get the king size share of the food. With more food the squirrel population skyrocketed - nature abhors a vacuum. When the squirrel population gets too large; they eat fruits and nuts before they mature. They don't get as much food from immature seeds and fruit and it hurts the squirrel population in the long run - but I don't think you worry about that if you are going hungry.
I think that some squirrels even chew off the ends of healthy branches just to drink the sap? Sometimes I will have many clusters of chewed off maple tree branches on my lawn. Occasionally I will notice the same with the oak trees. I presume the maple sap might taste sweet to the squirrels; I don't know about oak sap?
Eventually, I presume, the hawk population will (hopefully) catch up with these marauders? It would be great to have another bumper crop of apples again.
that's a good point. i saw squirrels this summer eating what had to have been green acorns. they couldn't wait, i guess...
now there are no acorns and the squirrels are hungry. look what they did to my jack-o-lantern
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Originally Posted by Bmachina
I am in upstate SC and the trees in my yard are absolutely packed with acorns. They have been raining down on my house non stop by the thousands every day. My deck and yard is a solid sheet of acorns.
that's what it was like here last year, and most years actually. very different from this year.
So much for Accuweather and the professor at Penn State that started this thread! Apparently bears can't read!
yeah, looks like they were way off. then again, so was i
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