Milt’s Corner – Awe, Nuts?

At that distance, they look exactly like a pile of deer “pellets” from a big doe or buck…

At that distance, they look exactly like a pile of moose “pellets” from a small cow or bull(winkle, no squirrel).

Looks like red oak leaves about them, that percludes elk “pellets”.

Jays disperse rather than concentrate acorns. I thought squirrels would squirrel them away in a safe place out of sight. Hmmmm?

Lee, it looks like you can still see things as they are, with some good reasoning and personal insight…..now, if you only had some first hand experience…you’d get the whole picture..
From my first hand experience and reasoning, I can say that’s no swamp buck or even Florida deer…even though Florida has red oaks, as well… .the pellets are too light colored…different diet…and different intestinal processing… And they aren’t freshly dropped, or they would be more shiny..And that’s too many in one spot for any but a extremely large deer, or maybe, as ar says, moose..(since I’ve never seen moose pellets, and these pellets have different colors, of light and dark brown, he might be right..) So, even though we don’t know all the particulars, it seems that at least we know our shit…..and you are still wondering…..ummmmm? Acorns???

funny, jes. i saw the right hand side of the pile with what looks like a single acorn and almost went for it…, i haven’t seen deer that big but moose droppings are uptown on 5th Avenue ha ha.

plus the photographer is a good one. and clever.

One fine autum day as I was leaving my place of employment I watched a scrub jay burying a hazelnut under a birch tree. After getting it in the ground it walked around it, checking out different view angles, and adding more cover. I figured that there would be a tree sprouting there the next spring. But instead on a beautiful day in April as I was leaving a scrub jay flew in, flicked aside the covering debris and retrieved its nut. Where ever there is easily worked soil I find hazel nuts and acorns planted by jays. Last year I had about an acre of open ground that was seeded to native grasses. I gathered about 5 pounds of Oregon white oak acorns and placed them under the bird feeder. Both scrub and Steller’s jays hauled them away and hopefully planted them in the inviting open area and would not find all of them in the future. Too soon to see if it was effective.

By the way, there is money in those moose droppings.

http://sites.google.com/site/moosecense/home

Some of you know your shit. As a matter of fact it is 100% pure and unadultrated MOOSE Turd!!! I know because I took the picture just after it landed in the leaves.

I don’t know shit!!! Did you taste that to make sure. I’ve heard tell that the only true way to distinguish between deer and moose is taste. I want to see a government sponsored taste test.

Oh gawd, a government sponsored taste test, that will be a couple billion more for nothing..

Burn them like incense, moose smells like willow , deer and elka aroma is not so pleasant.