I've barely had any acorns at my place in 8 years and this year they're absolutely everywhere. Kind of surprising as dry of a summer as we had.English kicking it again this year.


Sometimes I wonder how anything eats burr acorns, with those huge caps. Squirrels can probably get at them, but I have to think deer don't want any part of the caps.Nice!
There are very few burs around here. 2 in a local park and 2 I just became aware of in what used to be a front yard of an old homestead. I'm not sure why there are so few, because they grow very well for me.
I collected some acorns from the "famous" Hershey Burr at the Downingtown Friends meeting House. They all had caps on them and almost all germinated.It seems like the bur oaks I find tend to be the first ones to drop. I would imagine dear wouldn't mind the extra work of removing the caps for the first acorns of the season. I pretty much never find bur oak acorns unless they had dropped in the last few hours.
I can't remember where I saw it, but I watched a video a few weeks ago where someone stated that when an oak drops acorns with a cap still on them, that those acorns are likely not viable. I don't know if there is any treat to that and I haven't tested it myself, so take it with a huge grain of salt.


Monsters!
UPDATE:Had a nice surprise this evening. I happened to look out our front windows and saw a mature doe in the yard of the neighbor right across the street from us. I called my wife to watch too, as the doe walked across the street to munch on the bounty of acorns under our pin oak. She walked off after another neighbor brought their dog out into their yard. We wondered if she has fawns she'll bring back during the night. Our 2 crab apple trees might be the next spots for them to visit. After tasting the acorns - she'll be back.
Yep. We knew they weren't red oak acorns - we've seen gobs of those before, but the leaves looked like red oak leaves. For our area, that pointed to blacks, and his phone pics confirmed. The striped exteriors of the nut shells are distinctive. I'd never held a black oak acorn until last evening.I've found that a large majority of what I thought were Northern reds at my place are actually blacks. Very similar looking. The deer and turkeys are hammering mine!