Ah well, seems maybe that the nut-gathering should have been in September. My whole crop to date numbers twelve!
There have clearly been loads more but all that's there now is a mass of cracked shells.
I have not noticed either of my neighbours walking about surreptitiously with a pair of nutcrackers hidden about their person, so I imagine a wild creature of some sort that has nobbled (or nibbled?) the lot.
I'd like to think it was a far-from-native meerkat - we all seems to be having a love affair with them at the moment, don't we? - but I think a mouse, shrew or rat is more likely. Had it been a squirrel I think the bird seed on the table would have vanished in seconds as well. Whatever it is, I trust it's not like the new rats found in Papua New Guinea recently (reported September 2009) which are amongst the largest ever found.
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