Just thought I would add another observation that seems to fly in the face of what the so-called "experts" preach about acorns. I have read numerous articles that claim deer will not eat red oak acorns until they have been on the ground for several days or weeks. The claim is that because red oak acorns are more bitter than those from a white oak, the deer will ignore them until there is nothing else to eat or until the red oak acorns become less bitter while laying on the ground. That might all be true but somebody needs to tell that to the doe and her yearling that are in my back yard right now because they are literally vacuuming up all the red oak acorns that have fallen over the past couple of days. They obviously don't give a crap how bitter they might be.