It’s not safe out there.
Take it from a blind squirrel cursed to sniff all the acorns.
The comfort is that there’s usually a couple of skunks eating with them, and they’re a pretty good deterrent. And they’re amazingly calm critters. You can just about drop bologna on their head, or throw peanuts in their fur, and they’ll freeze for an instant, then just continue eating. You can’t imagine my guilt when one of the guttsier skunks climbed the ladder to the table and then fell off. Now he just climbs to the top of the ladder and eats what he can reach. So I cover that part of the table with peanuts for him.