Nuts to You Squirrel

The other day, my husband got the tractor out to cut the grass. He backed it out of the shed but when he to put it into drive gear, it would budge. He tried everything he could think of short of taking the battery out--which he finally did. Underneath the battery he went to the spot where the gears would engage and found a black walnut. We have dozens of squirrels bringing their black walnut treats from the house down the street that has several black walnuts trees. Why they come to our deck to eat them is still a mystery.

We are assuming they got into the shed and hid the black walnuts for food in the winter. We found a pile of them in the corner of the shed but probably one of them somehow got into the tractor.

Here's the evidence...look within the white circle.