Few natural things signal fall more emphatically than a nut; it’s coated with autumn’s shine and filled with food. We see squirrels, deer, turkeys, and red-headed woodpeckers picking up acorns, consuming them as well as some caching the nut’s packaged energy. Vehicles and road implements smash, shell out and otherwise destroy acorns, walnuts, and shagbark- and yellowbud-hickory nuts. Hazelnuts are usually consumed by chipmunks before they’re ripe so we rarely see a mature nut.
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