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Squirrels in your garden. Does it bother you much yes or no?

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  • Forester_PeteForester_Pete Posts: 175
    Am looking forward to having some Pine Martins released here. That will give the blighters a bit of a shock. Don't get many in the garden but any is too many for me!
  • IgrowfromseedIgrowfromseed Posts: 284
    This cat moved into the area a month ago and local squirrel population moved out. Grey squirrel is also on the menu at the local butchers at £4.99 each. Just realised I can post pictures- been trying all evening on my own thread without succcess


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    £5!?  That's the same for a bit of organic chicken. There's not that meat on a squirrel.
  • IgrowfromseedIgrowfromseed Posts: 284
    Here's the tweet photo from our local butcher. 




  • dave125dave125 Posts: 178
    edited April 2018
    Yes Grey Squirrels were introduced by the Victorians - Red Squirrels were probably introduced by the Normans so neither are native.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Probably? Lol. They are native, in the sense that they came when the ice receded
    10 000 years ago. Grey squirrels were brought in 1876. Let me Google it for you.

    Red Squirrel Trust
    The Woodland Trust

  • hypercharleyfarleyhypercharleyfarley Posts: 345
    Perhaps Dave was confusing them with rabbits - fluffy, and a nuisance!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    :D
  • dave125dave125 Posts: 178
    Bumholes! Get some DNA off to that company and I bet all Red Squirrels are 2% Viking and 98% Swiss.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    35% Sardinian, 22% Moroccan?
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