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Has anyone else noticed zero beech mast (nuts) this year?

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Witzend Sat 12-Oct-24 12:16:04

We have a mature beech tree in our small garden, and for as long as I can remember, the grass would have been littered by now with shells dropped by squirrels and parakeets.

None this year, and I’ve noticed the same in our nearby large park, where there are a lot of mature beech trees - usually filled in early autumn with a lot of noisy parakeets scoffing them.

Similar elsewhere, or just a local thing?

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Allira Sat 12-Oct-24 16:10:37

👍 🙂

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Allira Sat 12-Oct-24 16:12:16

We had a beech tree in the grounds of our school. We girls did try nibbling them then someone suggested if we ate enough we could make ourselves sick enough to miss the Maths lesson.

I don't think anyone did!

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gulligranny Sat 12-Oct-24 16:24:45

We have a very big beech tree in our garden, it's approximately 250 years old. This year no flowers so no nuts, but it does seem to go in cycles; perhaps because it's had plenty of water this year it isn't feeling the need to procreate, as it were.

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Wheniwasyourage Sat 12-Oct-24 21:08:09

Lots of beech mast and conkers here just now. NE Scotland.

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theworriedwell Sat 12-Oct-24 21:10:29

winterwhite

Not beech nuts, but no conkers😖

I was walking along a path behind a local primary school. The ground was littered with conkers, I couldn't get over them just being left. When my kids were at that school there would have been crowds of kids trying to get as many as they could.

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Mollygo Sat 12-Oct-24 21:26:24

Not seen beech nuts. There are conkers and hundreds of sweet chestnuts. We have to keep the dog away because they’re so thick on the ground, and so prickly.

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henetha Sat 12-Oct-24 23:19:59

I walked through our local park today hoping to find conkers but didn't.
There was some beech mast but not a lot.

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