[NatureNS] Butternut seedlings

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A novel way to toast a walnut. I didn't know Squirrels knew how to cook.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laviolette, Lance" <lance.laviolette@lmco.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Butternut seedlings


> Hi Dave,
>
> Red Squirrels have no trouble with Black Walnuts and they are a lot 
> tougher than butternut. For walnuts, which I'm most familiar with, they 
> gnaw off the husk at the tree and then carry the nut to a hoarding 
> location.  They will gnaw into each hemisphere of the nut and consume the 
> nut-meat at their leisure at the hoarding site.
>
> I got a 'wonderful' first person experience with their hoarding of walnuts 
> when my clothes dryer stopped working and we pulled over 60 nuts from the 
> machine that had jammed the drum. The squirrel had gotten around both 
> hardware wire and a one way baffle on the outside exhaust port of the 
> dryer and run up the exhaust tubing into the machine.
>
> All the best,
>
> Lance
>
> Lance Laviolette
> Glen Robertson, Ontario
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] 
> On Behalf Of David & Alison Webster
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 6:02 PM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [NatureNS] Butternut seedlings
>
> Thanks Lance,
>    We do have a Red Squirrel that more or less lives here. If I find a 
> fruiting Butternut within Squirrel distance then that will be the 
> solution.
>    I wonder how a Squirrel would get at the nut ? It would be a tough chew 
> but possible I suppose.
>     In Davis, California I once heard a very shrill but faint shrieking 
> sound at dusk which turned out to be a mouse gnawing at a Wild Walnut 
> shell.
> Dave W.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laviolette, Lance" <lance.laviolette@lmco.com>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 11:44 AM
> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Butternut seedlings
>
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> In the area around my farm in eastern Ontario Butternut trees are
>> found naturally. Most are in rough shape due to Butternut canker but
>> they persist and produce nuts in spite of this. From my observations
>> I'd say that Red Squirrels are the most likely vector of distribution.
>> I've seen them moving and hoarding both Butternuts and the larger
>> Black Walnuts, husk and all, around my front yard. I haven't seen
>> seedlings in my yard however so either they don't survive the disease
>> or none of the nuts survive the squirrels' hunger.
>>
>> My neighbor told me that before Butternut became a scarce tree, his
>> mother used to gather the nuts and use them in her baking. Presumably
>> in the same way that walnuts or pecans are used. Anyone have a recipe for 
>> butternuts?
>> Butternut 'squash' is the only ingredient I was able to find on the
>> internet.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Lance
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
>> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
>> On Behalf Of David & Alison Webster
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 7:25 PM
>> To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca
>> Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] Butternut seedlings
>>
>> Dear All,                                Oct 27, 2015
>>    Over the last 3-4 years I have been seeing Butternut seedlings in
>> the yard; some new ones every year and most in the vicinity of a large
>> Ash tree.
>> I have yet to see any animal carrying the nuts so I continue to wonder
>> what agent moves them. Some 6-8 children play in nearby yards and they
>> might move them but I can't see this happening year after year. To
>> judge from the droppings on the tiers of wood, and excavations at the
>> base of an old-growth compost heap, our yard is Raccoon Central but
>> surely a Raccoon would not try to eat a Butternut.
>>    One of the Western Woodpeckers (Acorn) has a slick way of eating
>> the elongated Acorns of some western Oak species. It drills a hole in
>> a tree just large enough to hold an Acorn, shoves one in the hole
>> pointed end first and then eats the insides after pecking the proximal
>> end away. More often they drill many holes in a tree and store Acorns for 
>> off season use.
>>    We have Hairy Woodpeckers in and out of that Ash tree many times
>> per week (10-20 ?) so I am wondering if they sometimes use or try to
>> use the sharp crotch of Ash branches to hold a Butternut so they can
>> peel the husk away enough to open the nut.
>>    I tried eating Butternuts some decades ago and, drawing on memory,
>> the husk is readily removed after leaf-fall and the meat is rich and
>> good to eat without any treatment.
>> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>>
>>
>>
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