spawning

i am confused and bamboozled, since this doesn't feel like a feature and i can see nobody else talking about this? i broke a few trees in this area of the forest farm (near the north pass) and at some point during this process a witch hat just dropped. i am on vanilla, unmodded stardew. this is...

I panned on a lucky day, got the lucky ring and noted the location/the times of the panning spot i got it from (7:50am left side of the standard farm lower pond). Before the day ended I quit the game because I had things to do and wanted to reload the day later and get the lucky ring. Normally...