We call them DRS (dirty rotten squirrels) because when I use the word squirrel our dog gets all wound up when I say their name. She hates squirrels like any good sugarbush dog.
We had a bad acorn crop since the oaks got decimated by the gypsy moths (for the second year in a row) which resulted in almost no acorns. So I would have thought that gummy drop lines would have been their fall back.
I too was surprised how well the woods held vacuum this week.
Ken