We have no White Oak acorns at all in my part of Humphreys. However, I found the Reds/Blacks like you did. I was driving my ATV on a gravel road that borders my place and I ran into two big piles of Red and Black Oak acorns. Started looking around on the roads through my place, and I found a few more. They weren't there a week ago.White Oaks started dropping in N. Humphreys Co several weeks ago.
Mostly because of the drought conditions, I think.
Riding my trike yesterday in Humphreys & Houston Counties we ran through several areas with heavy mast crops falling on the road.
I've been tracking rubbing and scraping activity, as well as acorn crops, for years. I've found that in a drought acorn-failure year, we will have almost no rubs, and far fewer scrapes than normal. In a bumper acorn year, rubs and scrapes are everywhere. This year looks like half-way in between the two extremes. Not as many rubs as normal, but I'm still finding them. Scrapes below normal, but I am finding them and they're being worked fairly regularly.I just found the first scape of the year on my place this morning…..
Heavy feeding under the white oaks on the ridge tops here that wasn't present last week.
