Where do squirrels pick up unshelled peanuts around your neighborhood?
Haha, we see peanuts and shells in the backyard frequently. At first it creeped me out because I thought a human was leaving them then realized it had to be an animal. I searched peanuts in my yard and apparently it’s a thing - human’s feed squirrels peanuts! 
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Dinner time at the apple trees . I can see I’ll have very little raking of the apples this year . Bucky came through first and left .
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I know some find them to be a nuisance (rats with long legs, lol) but that is such an awww moment to me. 
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Yep, my back yard too. Someone in the neighborhood must put them out. I see Blue Jays fly in and bury them as well. Once one sprouted in one of my pots.
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Lol I think I have one sprouting in a pot too!
I did another search on the subject since posting. There’s some wacky stories on Quora and other sites. One poor woman whose son is allergic to peanuts is battling her next door neighbor who keeps feeding the squirrels who then bury or drop peanuts in her yard.
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Around here it’s acorns and oak tree-letts. And once they are about 8 inches high, very hard to pull.
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That’s what I read about the peanuts. If there’s enough and you leave them alone “it will become a forest”… maybe a slight exaggeration?
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They’re actually a very attractive small shrub with pretty yellow flowers!
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in the States, most people who are hunting squirrels are usually going for fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and not greys. They’re bigger, and so have more meat on them.
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oh, and also I have an older Joy of Cooking and it has a scrapple recipe. It starts: “take one hog’s head and scrub it with a stiff wire brush”.
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Oak trees are no shrubs!
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This from multiple hurricanes. Live oak trees don’t like them. There are some that succumb to water and wind but most survive.
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same here. I sometimes regret having all those oak trees in my property but our architect was adamant that we keep them next to our house . Few years ago, someone who is an environmentalist came to visit. He went and look at the rings and said my oak trees next to the house is about 300 year old. Well, t hose and the ones at the terrace are a menace. We spent a lot of money to protect the ones at the terrace bec of erosion .My husband was worried they would fall and die We could dactually8 see their toots. .So he built terraces to protect them resulting in three law suits. from the County. In addition, I am constantly sweeping those oak leaves fro my porch and the pollen do stain the white stucco ,
Anyway, with all those squirrels and ground hogs, kept on burying my acorns which I do not mind as when acorn becomes seedlings, and grow to certain height, it is against the law to cut them!!! They are difficult to pull so I jsut cut them with my Felco. They also dig up my bulbs. if they are hungry, that is understandable but they often dig them up and pile them and become spoil.ed.
So, one day, around 6 years ago, I hired a trapper to trap the ground hogs. Nothing happened after 7 days. If he does not trap any ground hog after coming here every day for 7 days, then I have to pay him $50.00. For every ground hog he traps, we pay him $25.00. So, the next year, I paid him to trap squirrels. Well, he trapped several squirrels. I do not remember how much I had to pay him but my son laughed and told me it di don’t make a dent in our squirrel population! Some friends told me he should pay me for my squirrels as he is a butcher and probably sold them.
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We have well over a dozen giant oaks in the country. Husband said that visit before last. he spent 4 days taking and hauling leaves to the burning pile. He said they were : snd 4 inches deep. Not good in high fire danger country.
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I think there are several types of oak trees. Fortunately the ones near my yard have leaves great for composting.
You are very lucky. The leaves of our “live oak” trees stay intact for YEARS on the ground. They are akin to holly leaves with barbs which invade go-aheads and Crocs, refuse to sweep easily, as is said, “Yea, verily, I am with you always!” Husband, to be sassy, planted a live oak in our back yard, so these leaves are with me city and country.
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If I tried the same thing, I’d have the same result, I feel certain. i had to laugh because of it
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My cousin in IL says the reds terrorize her cute little gray squirrels. I’m surprised she doesn’t make meals out of them
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