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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s just what I said above 😀😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Well - some of the earlier stuff was enough to make you weep, so it's good to have a change  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2021



    I've never seen a red squirrel in person. (How odd). It would make me weep to think they might be lost to American pox and the hubris of human idiocy.

    This makes me unweep.


    (I paste out full links as many readers seem not to see which text is hyper-linked and which isn't).



  • Jac19Jac19 Posts: 496
    edited September 2021
    I have 2 pet squirrels.  It is what it is.
    They come close up to me and I have been able to put tick drops on them for about 6 months now. I buy it at the pet shop close to me and I have been advised I can treat them once a month.  Little worming stuff in the flapjack bits I feed them also.  So they are healthy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    There a Gardens in Cornwall breeding them,  I doubt they’ll every be able to let them go down here, it’s running alive with greys,  hundreds of them, tree rats. 
    I’ve just read about them again, they’re releasing them in Anglesey. 
    https://paradisepark.org.uk/conservation/the-red-squirrel-project-cornwall/
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I quite fancy a squirrel flapjack. Does it taste gamy?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes @Fire, it's new initiative, so hopefully it'll have some effect  :)
    That area in Glen Feshie that I mentioned to you has had a lot of changes with a new approach. It's lovely area. 
    Here's one for you - in case you don't get a chance to see on in the flesh. Perthshire as well - in Glen Tilt. He/she was a good omen that day, for my 100th Munro  :)


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m pretty certain those breeders in Cornwall ween the baby reds on flapjack, it’s the most natural food for squirrels. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I think Hugh Feathery Weatherspoons was making squirrel wraps with hoi sin sauce, Delish. Bring them on.
    Devon.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    A friend of ours, in Wales orders them from his butcher for Christmas dinner, you need one each apparently.
    It may come to that here soon,  no food no fuel and worse of all, no loo rolls.  The fur’s ideal for that and recyclable. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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