Wildlife Pecan Tree		Bearing Size Wildlife Pecan Trees

The Wildlife Pecan tree produces a thin, papershell pecan which attracts many species of wildlife. Pecans have a very distinctive nutty taste and are used in many recipes both whole and crushed. Shelled pecans can broken in perfect halves allowing wildlife a high food yield without much effort. Pecans are favored by squirrels, possums and raccoons and can feed them months into the winter, and even rabbits will eat seedling nuts when they fall from the Pecan tree. Many Pecan nuts fall from the tree during the fall period and can be eaten on the ground by wildlife game birds, deer, and gathered by squirrels.In the fall, the squirrel leaves the woods for the shade and nuts of the wildlife pecan tree. A single squirrel can eat or store for winter 5 pounds of pecans each day. Squirrels and many other wildlife animals can be lured into your yard by leaving pecan halves for them to eat during the winter. Game birds such as quail and dove will fly into a wildlife pecan tree and find the nut an easy food target. Some Wildlife Pecan trees can ripen the nuts as early as September and others ripen during the fall and can hang on the trees after snow and ice storms to be eaten by wildlife animals from the lower limbs. Raccoons and other climbing game animals climb the Wildlife Pecan tree for their food in the fall and winter.