Hey Penny, About Those Acorns...

...looks like your bumper crop might be a rarity this year. Anyone noticing a dearth of acorns as described in this WaPo article?

"I'm used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it's something I just didn't believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It's a zero year. There's zero production. I've never seen anything like this before."

Sounds like it might be a good year for my East Coast bird-loving friends to put out some nuts for the squirrels, too.

Comments

[macbeth]

Interesting...there were plenty here (and more walnut than I have seen in the past), but I see from the article that not too far north of us there were few acorns to be found. Must be some crazy cycle.

[Annette]

You know, I heard a story about this on NPR and, oddly enough, I did notice no acorns this year when we went out to gather some caps for crafting.