I was somewhat depressed to find very few squirrels on the property at my new home , with a woods filled with several varieties of nut trees you'd think that they would be thick as fleas on a hound . All year long I kept watching for them and never saw more than two the whole time . I was starting to think that the neighborhood cats , owls , and hawks were eating them all , silly me . I had forgotten that the squirrels all lay low until the see me sitting in my blind deer hunting , then they all go apesheit . Boy is my face red ! With the mast year that we've had this year the numbers of them next season should be at least four times this year's , next August is beginning to look far more promising .