Biggest I’ve ever seen, grabbed my final couple of pockets full today. Normal size nut in the middle.
Few more huge chestnuts
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Yep my daughter and I have been collecting them, we have found a lot of giants aswell, I wonder if it’s anything to do with whatever made apple trees go mad with their fruiting this year?
Everything has fruited madly. I'm used to mast years where maybe the Beech produce a lot, or the chestnut and conker tree produce a lot, but never a year where absolutely everything produces a lot.
Two apples? That’s a pair tree.
Look at the conkers my daughter found today - never seen so huge! Loads of them aswell
The big chestnuts she found a few days ago got roasted and eaten yesterday, she did not like them
EDIT: this post shows a photo of horse chestnuts (conkers) which are poisonous so don’t eat them.
The big chestnuts she found a few days ago got roasted and eaten yesterday, she did not like them
EDIT: this post shows a photo of horse chestnuts (conkers) which are poisonous so don’t eat them.
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Yes only sweet chestnuts can be eaten, not the conkers (horse chestnuts) - my daughter and I have found larger than expected sweet chestnuts (no photo as eaten) and massive conkers (photo available as not eaten)
Do not eat horse chestnuts (conkers) as they are poisonous
I was walking in the Forest of Dean last week and there was absolutely no wind but I could hear acorns falling like rain all around me everywhere I walked. The ground is carpeted in them.
I see very few squirrels, though they’re about. They’d never in years eat the amount of nuts and acorns around this year, but I think food is going to be sparse into the darker winter.
I’ve just become an admirer of Jays after a lifetime thinking they prey on birds eggs. A Jay can accommodate up to 5 acorns in its beak and gullet and distributes up to 100 a day, 2-3 miles from the parent tree.
I’ve just become an admirer of Jays after a lifetime thinking they prey on birds eggs. A Jay can accommodate up to 5 acorns in its beak and gullet and distributes up to 100 a day, 2-3 miles from the parent tree.
We normally get a load of Chestnuts from where Rachaels parents live, loads of trees there. But apparently, there's nothing worth having on any of them this year. Small and flat they said.
Strange how they vary. I thought we'd be the same here, and the first early ones were like you say, small and flat. Then the mature ones started coming down, I know a lot of tree people and coppicers etc, none of them had seen them this big before.
We have had a serious crop of Sloes here. Never seen so many. Honestly, the branches look like huge bunches of grapes. If there's any truth to the old wives tales... winter may be long, hard and cold.
The mirror did an article a couple of days ago (yes, i know they always dramatise everything) But referring to caterpillars and squirrels.
Cold and hard winter coming after common sign we've all seen
Certain behaviours exhibited by animals can be used as a trusted indicator on the severity of an upcoming season, with the woolly bear caterpillar being one of these
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