The acorn crop hereabouts failed miserably this year. As a consequence people are seeing more black bears who are coming out of the hardwood forests looking for a meal. I’ve seen five over the past three weeks. We have quite a few wild pear trees and a lot of the fallen fruit rots on the ground usually. Not this year. Bears have cleaned them up! Squirrels have been all over the black walnuts, too. The peaches are long gone as are the paw-paws. Still persimmons around, but not much else.
I put out a couple of snares late yesterday for squirrel. First time I’ve tried the snares. Better to learn it now than really needing them later and not having perfected it.
Other than the animals around picking would be slim this time of year here. I simply do not know a lot about any wild edibles. Something else I should learn about.