Post by woodyz on Sept 29, 2021 13:38:19 GMT -7
red, post, pin, even water oaks are already dropping their acorns, seems early, they still have all their leaves around here
I didn't notice them so much until I saw the squirrels getting them in the driveway, went and looked and found a lot were falling already. But what is falling are very small, the same trees dropped much bigger acorns in the past.
I eliminated most of the squirrels on this property a few years ago when they were chewing the wires in the garage, in the fall. May be time to thin them out again, I'll know more when the leaves get off the trees more. I know we have some nests in the big water oaks in the back yard and in some of the trees on land to the backside of the property. I also saw squirrels on the neighbors property as well as a lot of nests on surrounding property.
I worry they are getting their numbers back and will want to nest in the garage again. I'll keep an eye on them and see what they do this fall, I have put d-con mouse/rat poison cubes on the rafters in the garage with success in the past, but worry about that with the cat we have now getting the bodies. She is the main reason I stopped setting snares for tree rats.
Speaking of the cat, I just ate a can of pink salmon presser cooked with the skin an bones, good stuff, I think it has something in it I need, cause I crave it once in awhile, but I gave the cat 1/3 of the can, now she won't go away, she wants more.
Hummingbirds have gone through 3 batches of sugar water this past week, I think the front pushing south drove some of the holdouts in front of it, wife was ready to take the feeders down for the winter, but now I think we will leave them up another month or so.
I didn't notice them so much until I saw the squirrels getting them in the driveway, went and looked and found a lot were falling already. But what is falling are very small, the same trees dropped much bigger acorns in the past.
I eliminated most of the squirrels on this property a few years ago when they were chewing the wires in the garage, in the fall. May be time to thin them out again, I'll know more when the leaves get off the trees more. I know we have some nests in the big water oaks in the back yard and in some of the trees on land to the backside of the property. I also saw squirrels on the neighbors property as well as a lot of nests on surrounding property.
I worry they are getting their numbers back and will want to nest in the garage again. I'll keep an eye on them and see what they do this fall, I have put d-con mouse/rat poison cubes on the rafters in the garage with success in the past, but worry about that with the cat we have now getting the bodies. She is the main reason I stopped setting snares for tree rats.
Speaking of the cat, I just ate a can of pink salmon presser cooked with the skin an bones, good stuff, I think it has something in it I need, cause I crave it once in awhile, but I gave the cat 1/3 of the can, now she won't go away, she wants more.
Hummingbirds have gone through 3 batches of sugar water this past week, I think the front pushing south drove some of the holdouts in front of it, wife was ready to take the feeders down for the winter, but now I think we will leave them up another month or so.