We saw an unusually high number of migrating red-headed woodpeckers at the
Turkey Point Hawk Watch this past fall, along with hundreds and hundreds
of blue jays, so maybe they all did leave for better foraging grounds.

It would make sense that an oak's production of acorns would vary from
year to year. If they do depend on a dry spring season, then having had
two very wet springs in a row may have resulted in the low yield last fall.
We had a mast year around here just a few years ago--I can't remember
if it coincided with a bad drought or not.


--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato