Nature Note:A Big Crop

It looks like we're getting a bumper crop of acorns this year.That will be welcomed by the blue jays,who feast off the pin oaks from late August to early September.The eastern chipmunks will also have some,but 90% of the acorns seem to be gathered by the blue jays,who bury many of the acorns around the area,to provide some winter food for themselves.The acorns they don't eat over the winter will produce oak seedlings in the spring.