Any cutting activity yet?

The Squirrels are still hitting my bird feeders hard as they love the Sunflower Seeds that I use to feed the birds.

With all the rain we had last month. (July) the hickory tree's nuts should be ripening and ready pretty soon.

August 15th? Is that still the opening day of Squirrel Season in IN?

The squirrels in my neighborhood use to reside across the street from my house in a vacant lot with three huge old tall oak trees and a row of scrub trees that were along a fence line. I use to watch the fox squirrels chase each other up and around the old Oak Tree about 300 yards away. But those three Oak trees were cut down and the stumps removed this summer about a month ago. Then the scrub trees were all removed and chopped up. The Pole Barn that used to be hidden by all the scrub trees along that old fense line is not fully visible and much larger than I thought. Never could see but just one end of it through all the trees and scrubs blocking my view. Now it's out in the open. But not for long. As I just found out last week that there condos are being build on the now vacant land. I wondered why the owner of the land hired professional tree people to take out those huge old oak trees all in one or two days time. They were gone before I knew it. I got some videos of them cutting the trees down and a few still pictures for history sake. I've been looking at those trees for over 25 years out my kitchen window. The view out my back window has changed drasticall. At one time there was a very old one story school building that was last used as a local church on Sundays and Wed night. I remember sitting on my back deck and hearing the congregation of about 10 to 15 people singing hymns on Wed Nights.

Now the Fox Squirrels that used to live in the Big Old Three Oak Trees have moved to my Ash Tree next to my house. I see them feeding in the three maple trees that line my back property line. And they still eat the mulberries in the tree at the corner of my back yard. I've not see any squirrels for a while at the bird feeder but that's because I'm not looking out the window as much or at the wrong times. They are still there and I'll see them pretty soon. Unless they have migrated to take advantage of other trees in the area. Maybe they are on the Hickory Trees now. I know that there are two persimmon trees in the area and they could be using them too.

They've about stripped all the pears off my tree in the backyard and I lost the battle of who got the ripe peaches on my good peach tree....about time to start thinning the herd!!!

They will play hell with a pear crop. I have a friend who started out doing cider pressing as a hobby ane eventually turned it into a small business. He left town for a long weekend in August a few years back and came home to NO pears whatsoever left in his orchard.

A storm with strong winds rolled through yesterday. A large limb fell from a beech tree and it was loaded with nuts. I also found a few hickory nuts on the ground. At least I know there should be some nuts this year.

Just checked the woods I'm going to hunt Monday. Found a couple of pig nut hickories cut, but not too much yet. Should really pick up over the next couple weeks.


maddog

They have started on my pecans...

They had just started hitting a few of the shagbarks yesterday. They had been tearing up the buckeyes.

All the ones I've seen cutting have been in hickory trees.

same here it kinda sucks cause where i live you can shoot them