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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rufin</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:49
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [MassChestnutOrchards]
Squirrels</DIV>
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<P>Hi Rufin,</P>
<P>Good scientific research; omteresting results.</P>
<P>Mike M.<BR><BR>---------- Original Message ----------<BR>From: <<A
href="mailto:rufin@charter.net">rufin@charter.net</A>><BR>To: <A
href="mailto:masschestnutorchards@masschestnut.org">masschestnutorchards@masschestnut.org</A><BR>Subject:
[MassChestnutOrchards] Squirrels<BR>Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:55:50
-0400<BR><BR>I have thought that squirrels prefer chestnuts over other nuts. I
tried a small test. <BR>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.<BR>At dark none were gone <BR>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?<BR><BR>Rufin<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>MassChestnutOrchards
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