OK, I didn't get that at all. My reading was more along the lines of Jim's. I actually thought the "discarded shells" were people, like "he's just a shell of his former self" - that sort of thing. Now I understand that they are nut shells.
My parents have dealt with squirrels (and rats) stealing the birdseed and suet, so I'm not *completely* ignorant of that scenario, but somehow I didn't realize the squirrels were actual squirrels.
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