I have a few shagbark hickories in my pasture. It seems that a squirrel or two will check out the nuts periodically and then all of a sudden they proclaim them ready. That occurred this week and now there are mobs of them cutting and eating. Drives my dogs nuts.
The amazing thing is that the deer eat what the squirrels drop to the ground. Amazing because those nuts are wickedly hard. It takes quite a whack with a hammer to break one but the deer grind them up one after another.
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