> The Ithaca area is just a bit of a special case, being an area where the USDA finds a distinct lack of oak trees in their surveys, updated  as recently as 2014.  

That's pretty funny. I live in Ithaca, and there is no shortage of oaks. My house is barraged with acorns every fall, and on our 4 acres there are dozens of oaks. As well as native magnolia, sugar maple, wild cherry, tulip poplar, even sassafras -- to name a few. Many of these are hollow and in the 25 years I have lived on this property I have never seen a swarm move into one of them. We have no shortage of squirrels, chipmunks and other rodents, however. They seem to like acorns a lot.

P

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