There is no question about it. It has been a banner year for fruit and cone production!!! marty > On Oct 25, 2017, at 3:08 PM, t...@fltg.net wrote: > > Our (mostly red) oak trees had a huge mast year two years ago, but last year > and this year the acorns have been at more normal production levels. Red oaks > have a two year cycle for acorn production - the flowers from this year are > next year's acorns - so it could be that 2018 will be another big year for > acorns in our woods. > > Cones & other nuts do seem abundant wherever we look, but I assumed it was > because this has been the first year in several that we didn't have an > ill-timed cold snap or drought during a crucial part of the growing season. > On our property we had almost no walnuts last year & I am certain that was > b/c of a bad cold snap just after pollination that seemed to kill most of the > tiny fruit, followed by an extended period without rain later in the growing > season. There have been a couple of cold/warm/cold/warm periods in early > spring during the past five years and several kinds of fruit and nut trees > were affected. Perhaps the trees have energy on hand from those years when > they couldn't develop fruit, and can pour that energy into extra production > this year? > > While cold snaps & droughts also are connected to climate change, my guess is > that this year's abundance had more to do with these factors rather than with > warming - it wasn't all that warm in central NYS this summer > <http://www.syracuse.com/weather/index.ssf/2017/08/central_ny_summer_ends_up_slightly_cooler_than_normal.html>, > for one thing! > > Alicia > > P.S. Birders on the Maine bird list have similar complaints about the > disappearance of their feeder birds, with similar conclusions that it likely > is due to unusual amounts of food in the wild. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > Betsy Darlington <darlingtonb...@gmail.com> > > To: > "Marc Devokaitis" <mdevokai...@gmail.com> > Cc: > "Barbara B. Eden" <b...@cornell.edu>, "CAYUGABIRDS-L" > <cayugabird...@list.cornell.edu> > Sent: > Wed, 25 Oct 2017 12:47:44 -0400 > Subject: > Re: [cayugabirds-l] Where are all my feeder birds > > > I wonder if all these trees are putting out "stress cones/seeds," caused by > the accelerating warming. Or do they just like being so warm? > Betsy > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Marc Devokaitis <mdevokai...@gmail.com > <mailto:mdevokai...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi All, > > Re-opening this thread--I thought I'd share with the list a comment from > Donald Leopold, Chair of the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology > at SUNY-ESF (I was asking him about something else, but this came up.) > > "Not only are conifers producing an extraordinary abundance of cones but I > have never seen such an abundance of walnuts, hickories, oak acorns, sugar > maple and white ash samaras, and other tree fruits and seeds. Interestingly, > I’ve seen this above average production across the Northeast." > > > > Hopefully this goes a long way to explaining the increase in decreases this > year. > > > > Marc Devokaitis > > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Barbara B. 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