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Found these cypress balls in my front yard, looks like the squirrels are at least sampling them. Come on October!

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Always heard, but never tested, that squirrels eating cypress balls taste of turpentine. Heard the same of wood ducks but have trouble imagining them choking one down.

Never experienced any turpentine tasting squirrels and I’ve consumed a many killed in cypress swamps. Their chins are stained from the oil and the water in the swamp has oil sheens from all the cuttings falling from the trees in October. Never witnessed wood ducks eating cypress balls but see them every fall eating floating Tupelo gum fruits in the same cypress swamp. Good times.

They are cutting them in my yard as well. It's a bumper crop of cypress balls this year.

This is what my wood ducks eat.
Heh heh ....if u let em.

Woodie Mecca!

Anotherone wrote:Woodie Mecca!

It really is.
If you want to waste shells shooting at lawn darts in flooded timber...THAT I CAN DO.
Around Thanksgiving the woods are full.of wood ducks.

Good to see a good mast crop. Our woods were totally void of acorns last year. Hoping for a different result this year.

Ducaholic wrote:Good to see a good mast crop. Our woods were totally void of acorns last year. Hoping for a different result this year.

That was last fall. I can't tell until I get there..it's all snaky right now.