In article , Christina Websell
writes
I didn't see a single hazel nut on the way home, and I checked every
tree.



Should think it's the same reason that there are very few pears or
apples about. Either they had such a good year last year that they
exhausted themselves or this year the weather has been too awful.

Travelling around the Chilterns I have seen very few nuts and sloes this
year too though my crategus crux-galli was covered in huge berries
until last Saturday when an army of blackbirds, pigeons and all manner
or smaller birds descended on it and they have stripped the lot in three
days.

........................ Now where's my Bird Trust survey on birds and
berries gone, so i can fill it in !
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Janet Tweedy