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after being severely told off for munching my bulbs yesterday he's back again ::) :)
Hee hee!
I never see squirrels. The last one I saw was a grey kept in a cage in a sanctuary nearby. He isn't allowed out because we still have reds. So I'm told but I've not had the pleasure of seeing one.
I love watching them in the garden, I know the grey ones are a pest but I still think they're cute :)
The red ones ar normally much shyer, although when I was a child we used to visit Dawsholm PArk in Glasgow (don't even know if the park still exists) and it was well known for its red squirrels which were quite quite tame and would eat out of your hand.
I have seen plenty of grey squirrels - but never a red - unfortunately.
:-\
Every year, due to grey squirrels, all the bulbs that I have in the garden get moved around. Apart from the ones they eat it's quite nice to see daffs and tulips popping up in strange places. :D
We don't get squirrels or rabbits here as too many people in the village have shotguns. I am grateful that bunnies aren't eating my veggies and squirrels not raiding the bird nuts but I wouldn't have the heart to kill them! :'(
I don't get squirrels in my garden but they are around. There are red squirrels in the grounds of Paxton House so have seen them quite a bit. Also Drumlanrig Castle grounds have the Red Squirrel, so really I see the reds more than the greys.
;D ;D ;D ;D
lucky you C
i have never seen a red squirrel :'(
I've only seen a red squirrel once, when I was a child, in Derbyshire, he was beautiful. We have greys here - North Notts, I work part time in a hospice and the patients and visitors love to watch their antics. I'd far rather see a red though :( They're talking seriously about a grey cull aren't they, DEFRA and The Forestry Commission I think the BBC news website said?
GW lovely picture!
The greys are the bane of my life, lost ALL my tulips, and in the end I had to put my bulb pots into my cold frame until all rooted. :(
sorry to hear that f :(
i've lost quite a few this year myself & that's only the ones i've seen him munching ::)
Doh! I wondered where all the tulips went.. ;)
What is it with you and wild animals?? Badgers, squirrels....you are so lucky :D :D
Having read this post, I invested in a Squirrel Stop spray, & went round puffing all my emerging bulbs!
I only hope that it works.
I live in red squirrel territory - though not quite as far as this from the forests - but at the end of last year a couple of greys took over the garden, apparently the first time that they have been seen locally.
They immediately built a nest in my roof, an igloo built out of fibreglass insulation. Result? a bill for almost £3000 to replace all my fascia boarding!
Wildlife can get a teensy bit expensive!
Jeremy
I'd have put rat poison where they were nesting; no danger of anything else getting it there.
Pippa would have put rat poison in my tea if I did that!
when my brother was small lad (hes 16 now ) about 4 r 5 we used to feed a grey squirrel by hand on our garage roof sadly next doors dogs make sure no more come into the gardens and in longford park quite near to where i live in summer the flower garden there is over run with them some feed from your hand and some run a mile (luckily coz my kids chase them round and round ) i don't think my kids have worked out that its not the same one there chasing lol iv not yet seen one in my garden :'( we have never seen a red squirrel unless you count on animal plaint lol
Dawsholm Park in Glasgow is the only place I have ever seen a red one , it still exists Grawrc, although I had one running around outside my cold frame last week.
I loved that place so much!!! Glad to know it's still there. Red squirrels too I imagine - though a different generation from the ones I knew... :'( :'( :'(
I always used to think grey squirrels only eat nuts and stuff until last year. We had a blackbird's nest in the garden and a grey had all the newly hatched chicks. How do I know? I saw the little bu**er running along the fence with the tiny naked chick in his mouth! Wish I had a blooming gun. >:(