Squirral in Blockbuster today!

picklepick

As i understand it this law was only changed in 2007, up until then it was in fact illegal to release a grey squirrel which u have caught.
If anyone lives in the North West id thoroughly recommend a trip to Formby where at the National Trust site you can see lots of red squirrels. Some of the few remaining. I was so surprised to see how small they are compared to their american cousins. They really are very tiny and oh so cute!!!

rachiee

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I think lowis's little rodent visitor is what might be termed a strawberry-blonde. Proper, acorn-eating Squirrel Nutkins are a lovely, deep Titian colour, with tufts.

Doesn't matter much either way, I adore the little things regardless of hue and am in awe of lowis's little fella's mountaineering skills. Maybe she could find him a job as a steeplejack. Hehe

Haha yeah! Maybe the grey male and red female decided to friends and have babies! Who knows these days!!

foreign_correspondent

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

My German granny used to go on rest-cures to the Black Forest and the squirrels there were very, very bold. Any bag that was left unsecured would be delved into like a flash, they were so used to people feeding them treats.

Perhaps there are a lot of squirrels in Germany? - I have only ever seen red squirrels in Berlin - they are beautiful, such a shame they are almost gone over here now!

bank_of_slate

Go to Center Parcs in Penrith, tons of red squirrels there and the kids can hand feed them too! :T



This is my son feeding them from the back of our lodge
...Linda xx

BitterAndTwisted

Oh, the cuteness! Thanks for the pic, Linda

mrcol1000

When I was in Toronto Canada they have pure black squirrels. I kept trying to get a photo of one but they seemed to be camera shy. It didn't matter how far away I took the photo they ran the second I pressed the button!

Raksha

You don't have to go to Canada to see Black Squirrels, they have loads in North Herts (even used to be a pub named after them, think it's gone now )

mrcol1000

Raksha wrote: »

You don't have to go to Canada to see Black Squirrels, they have loads in North Herts (even used to be a pub named after them, think it's gone now )

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561946/The-pack-mutant-black-squirrels-giving-Britains-grey-population-taste-medicine.html


Apparently they are going to wipe the grey squirrels out and the female grey squirrels prefer the aggressive male black squirrel to the soft grey one.

rachiee

mrcol1000 wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561946/The-pack-mutant-black-squirrels-giving-Britains-grey-population-taste-medicine.html


Apparently they are going to wipe the grey squirrels out and the grey squirrels prefer the aggressive male black squirrel to the soft grey one.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :rotfl: