On Throw Back Thursday:
Acorn abundance varies every year. Some years there are lots of acorns, other years not so many. This variation is an oak survival mechanism that alternately floods and dries up the market to insure that some of their nuts survive hungry predation by squirrels, turkeys and deer.
Back in December 2008 there were so few acorns in the Washington, D.C. area that the situation made national news and people put out store-bought delicacies for squirrels.
Were the squirrels begging for attention? Click here to read this 2008 article: The Acorn Plot.
p.s. Pennsylvania’s squirrels have nothing to worry about this winter and next. The PA Game Commission says the acorn crop will be abundant this year and in 2016. Click here to read more.
(photo by Chuck Tague)
Don’t know. Our local Pin Oaks, which had bumper crops the last few year, had nothing this year!
Not much here either. Haven’t had to clean them off my truck once this season.
There are lots of acorns in North Park where the red-headed woodpeckers are hanging out … which is near Pie Traynor Field.
Lots of acorns at Boyce Mayview Park USC