I think the reasoning for that other view is that they don't often inhabitat the same areas.
Whatever the reasons or causes, it's important to encourage reds wherever possible. It's part of the reason I want to move north when I retire. A little cabin in the woods Hosta - I can be the 'mad squirrel lady' of the neighbourhood
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes HFW has trapped and eaten grey squirrels on TV. And pigeons, which also don't have much meat on them but if you catch a lot you can make a decent meal of either, apparently. He's also eaten signal crayfish and has lots of recipes for nettles, including a very tasty cheesey nettle pie and nettle beer. I think he's trying to get us to eat more wild species like grey squirrel and rabbits and fewer intensively farmed ones like chickens as a way of helping manage numbers of wild animals as well as reducing the inhumane conditions some farmed animals endure in order to meet our very high demand for meat in the uk. He's taken a similar line with fish, trying to get us to eat more of the species that are in very healthy numbers round our shores and fewer cod and salmon.
I've only once seen a red squirrel and that was in mid wales, near Machynlleth, back in the 1980s
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I normally cover my bulbs with chicken wire, I make my own ones by adding bamboo sticks, so that the wire is not touching the top of the compost. This is so that as the bulbs start to grown, although some grow through the holes the hyacinths do not, as it is then difficult to cut the wire away from the plant. I leave the wire on until the pots and troughs are full of foliage and buds, I then take it off. I subsequently then do not have any trouble with the squirrels burying any of their nuts or attacking any of my bulbs.
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greys carry squirrel pox which rarely harms them, but easily kills the reds.
I think the reasoning for that other view is that they don't often inhabitat the same areas.
Whatever the reasons or causes, it's important to encourage reds wherever possible. It's part of the reason I want to move north when I retire. A little cabin in the woods Hosta - I can be the 'mad squirrel lady' of the neighbourhood
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Was it Hugh Feathery Wetherspoon who cooked them like " duck spring rolls"?
I hope you mean greys!
not much meat on them though....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes HFW has trapped and eaten grey squirrels on TV. And pigeons, which also don't have much meat on them but if you catch a lot you can make a decent meal of either, apparently. He's also eaten signal crayfish and has lots of recipes for nettles, including a very tasty cheesey nettle pie and nettle beer. I think he's trying to get us to eat more wild species like grey squirrel and rabbits and fewer intensively farmed ones like chickens as a way of helping manage numbers of wild animals as well as reducing the inhumane conditions some farmed animals endure in order to meet our very high demand for meat in the uk. He's taken a similar line with fish, trying to get us to eat more of the species that are in very healthy numbers round our shores and fewer cod and salmon.
I've only once seen a red squirrel and that was in mid wales, near Machynlleth, back in the 1980s
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I normally cover my bulbs with chicken wire, I
make my own ones by adding bamboo sticks, so that the wire is not touching the top of the compost. This is so that as the bulbs start to grown, although some grow through the holes the hyacinths do not, as it is then difficult to cut the wire away from the plant. I leave the wire on until the pots and troughs are full of foliage and buds, I then take it off. I subsequently then do not have any trouble with the squirrels burying any of their nuts or attacking any of my bulbs. 
I put an upturned old wire 'hanging basket' over a pot of daffs they kept scratting in
It worked