I just spent an entire day in the woods yesterday, looking for mast-producing oaks...

Well, I made it through about 150 oak trees and found maybe 4-5 that are putting down acorns. Terrible year for acorn mast in my hunting area.

Bushels of hickory nuts though. My '07oak foodsource stands will be ice cold in '08. I guess that means I'll have to find new ones.

So no, I'm not looking forward to tomorrow.More than likely, I'll sit for 4 hours over a puny whiteoak that is barely dropping some meager mast, then I'll retire back to the car - change into something less restrictive - and start hoofing it.

I'm anticipating a solid six-mile hike tomorrow. In the rain. Ugh.

Still better than work though.