[MassChestnutOrchards] Squirrels

[Rufin Van Bossuyt]

After a few more days all the walnuts and all but one butternut were also gone. I had placed all of the bait on the walk near the front door. While moving a small pile of leaves in the corner of the patio at the very back of the house, I came across one of the butternuts. Squirrel carried it a long way. I placed the two butternuts that I still had on top of the air conditioning unit near the garage where I could see them the next morning as I decided to take them back to Upton to plant. In the morning they were both gone.

Rufin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mike.meixsell at juno.com 
  To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org 
  Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Squirrels


  Hi Rufin,

  Good scientific research; omteresting results.

  Mike M.

  ---------- Original Message ----------
  From: <rufin at charter.net>
  To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org
  Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] Squirrels
  Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:55:50 -0400

  I have thought that squirrels prefer chestnuts over other nuts. I tried a small test. 
  I am at the Cape and there a lot of the critters here and not many acorns. Yesterday at 11:am I put out 10 chestnuts, 10 white oak acorns 10 black walnuts 10 shagbark hickory nuts, 10 red oak acorns  and 9 butternuts.
  At dark none were gone 
  This morning at 8 AM all chestnuts were gone, 1 hickory nut gone, 8 white oak acorns gone, no butternuts or walnuts gone, 4 red oak acorns gone. By 11:am only 8 butternuts and 8 walnuts left. By4:pm onyl 7 walnuts and 7 butternuts left. How do these squirrels know that foul smelling walnut and butter nut coverings cover something good to eat as these squirrels probably have never before come across them because none of those species are near here?

  Rufin
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