There is more than one definition of a Bender

We've got nine and a half million hazel bushes (okay, if you don't believe me, you count them...)
Anyway, the point is that even though we have nine and a half million hazel bushes, we never get a single nut as we've got nine and a half million squirrels_ approximately!
It would be 'fair game' if they waited til the starting whistle went as I could give any squirrel a good run for its money, but they have already started, long before the nuts are ripe, and that is just plain cheating.
So, rather than be left totally empty-handed I'm going to choose the hazel wands not bearing nuts (I mean, I don't want a single squirrel to go to bed hungry) and try my hand a t constructing a tiny bender: just big enough for a seven year-old friend.
I expect everyone who is anyone knew all about Tinker's Bubble long before I did. However, I know now and am captivated. What's more, the amazing Simon Fairlie, about whom and about whose diverse and 'spot on' activities I thought I already knew a lot, was the instigator. [If he only live a bit closed I'd love to get him to harpen my scythe; it's at least 35 years since I last used it...]
By the way, can anyone expain the nursery rhyme 'Here we go gathering nuts in May'?