After traveling far and wide the last few days I've got my annual bush tail report. The name of the game right now is Shagbark. Usually their in pignut early in the season. This year not so. Over on the creek at the big park upstream from my camp their tearin the shag hickories up. Ronald can confirm this. The one pignut that I checked that is always been cut on this time of year has not been touched. It'a loaded with nuts also.
The ones in my yard that been eating my pears have switched to walnuts. One little grey that brings pears up to a big maple and sits in the same spot and eats ( and I mean he only digs in to get to the seeds ) is now bringing in walnuts from somewhere.
Up at Clifty Falls today at a family reunion I noticed the same thing. Shagbarks. Also in a certain finger ravine that runs E to W there is a big buckeye that they almost always hit this time of year. Their cuttin it pretty good. Also while your looking at all the buckeye cuttins you'll notice several three prong seng plants. They have green seeds still.
I've also noticed a lot of small acorns on the ground and a lot of unripe persimmons.
squirrels over here are burnin up walnut and dogwood buds,and also any maple copters still in the gutters.been working in corydon and noticed that most of the white oak are saturated with nuts.at least on that farm.
Seems to be plenty of hickory and walnuts on our place. Did not check for acorns though. Got some reports that they cutting buckeye too. They'll hit the shagbarks when it's pretty dry in the woods. Lots of water in them.
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Seems to be plenty of hickory and walnuts on our place. Did not check for acorns though. Got some reports that they cutting buckeye too. They'll hit the shagbarks when it's pretty dry in the woods. Lots of water in them.
Tim, it's so dry here, you couldn't get a Widow to take root.......
