I do right away, if not the next time you come thru you hit them again and dump your load .Make sure you pick up all those stragglers that bounce out off the bucket. My father-in-law sucked up one of those stragglers in his snowblower last week. As invincible as dad thinks it is, his little bx-series Kubota was no match for a frozen chunk of sugar maple.
Making a little dent in the pile, just like eating an elephant .