Drill Nuts

[John Rumm]

The other day, I was on a mission to hang a mirror. So I grabbed my small drill bag from the workshop. For whatever reason I got side tracked, and the bag sat in the hall for a week.

Finally I got the required tuit the other day, and was about to set to it, when I noticed that my padded Makita bag containing the 10.8V Combi Drill and Impact Driver seemed to rather full of nuts! Not the shiny hex type you might expect, but something more akin to pistachios, complete with shells.

So it seems like a small hairy visitor in the workshop decided that bag left sat on the floor might be a good place to store his winter food cache, not to mention a nice comfy space to camp out for a bit :-)

He must have felt right at home to suddenly find himself in a nice warm heated space for a week as well. However all did not end well for our friend, since it probably explains where the cat found a nice tasty snack from inside the house!

[Robin]

Did you manage to identify the nuts? If cob nuts then distant memories suggest well worth some DIY squirrel population suppression by means of diversion of food supply.

[John Rumm]

We have a couple of trees that seems to have a similar looking seed, so they are a possible source - but I could not say for certain if that is where they came from. I might get a picture later and post it.

We don't have huge number of squirrels about... although they do usually manage to completely strip a small walnut tree every year.

[Tim Lamb]

In message [e-mail]>, John Rumm [e-mail] writes

Hmm:-) As part of the house move renovation I took out the garage up and over door. When removing the timber frame exposed the cavity, I got showered in empty Hazel nuts. Generations of Field Voles had climbed the Ivy, crossed the garage by a convenient truss and laid in a store ready for cold weather.