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[Simon1959]

I cannot think of a link with Land Rover's...  this is well off topic so forgive me, but I snapped these today from outside my office. Very pleased to have the red's coming back.

[Alan Drover]

Red squirrels. Great.
We've got frogs and a hedgehog and, unfortunately, the ubiquitous pesky wood pigeon.

[Wittsend]

In my part of Norfolk we just has these.

There's supposed to be some reds in the Thetford Forest, but I've never seen any.
 

[williammac]

I see this quite regularly in the garden...

[samuria]

In my part of Norfolk we just has these.

There's supposed to be some reds in the Thetford Forest, but I've never seen any.
 

good to eat or feed to ferrets lol

[genocache]

Grey squirrels here, though down in Santa Cruz I've seen some black ones. My trail cams caught gray foxes for the last couple of years and then in Jan this year they disappeared. Joy as I caught one again on the cam last week!  Bobcats eat foxes and there are at least 2 of them in the neighborhood.

[Genem]

We have a fair few Pine Marten here, they keep squirrel numbers down.... and some other residents.  ( £60 Trail camera, birthday present at the start of the year, site down the river a bit, baited with chopped carrot every so often).

[Simon1959]

Grey squirrels here, though down in Santa Cruz I've seen some black ones. My trail cams caught gray foxes for the last couple of years and then in Jan this year they disappeared. Joy as I caught one again on the cam last week!  Bobcats eat foxes and there are at least 2 of them in the neighborhood.

Hi there, the grey's are a north American import. Red's are/were the indigeneous UK squirrel. As I understand it, the Victorian's seem to think it was a good idea to introduce the grey's to the UK and since then they have taken over much of the UK. There are enclaves of red's in the North West where I live and in Scotland. I hate to say it, but the red's are really charming and the grey's are... not! Sorry.

Importing Japanese knotweed seemed like another great idea from the Victorian's

[nathanglasgow]

These guys are living rent free under the hardtops down the bottom of the garden.

[Alan Drover]

There are red squirrels on the Isle of Wight. I've seen them. As far as I know there are no greys there.
Greys are affectionately known as tree rats here. They carry squirrel pox which doesn't affect them but it does the reds.
Rewilding is another brain dead idea, somewhat like the Victorian ideas.

[Wittsend]

Importing Japanese knotweed seemed like another great idea from the Victorian's

... and Rhododendron bushes 

Apparently there's (or was) a bounty for greys in the Lake District.
I've seen pub menu boards up there with (grey) squirrel pie & squirrel stew 


 

[genocache]

According to what I've read, greys can live 6 years in the wild. I didn't think it was that long.

[George1990]

Don't think we'll ever get reds back down this far south despite our best efforts. I've shot 51 greys this year in a very small area and they keep on coming! Gone are the days of the police paying you per tail.

[Worf]

Only rabbits, foxes and badgers on my cam (not at the same time), but I did catch some snipe digging their beaks in the grass one night

[w3526602]

Hi,

Seeing as the title says "wildlife" ...

I once ran over an adder ... it shot across the road outside my house, in front of one of my S1s.

I stopped, and got out to have a shufti ... big jet of blood from out of it's mouth, but it was still out to get me. I didn't hang around to argue.

Nowadays, I prefer not to kill things, possibly because my best mate was killed by a shotgun, in his back garden, in Tooting Bec (South London)

602

Overtaken by George ... I too (once) shot a grey, in Croydon, the .177 slug went right through him. My BSA air rifle was, I suspect, "weapon quality", probably from WW1.

And now Worf. I chased a mouse round our bungalow on Penang, eventually caught it in a bean tin. Barbara climbed down from the sofa, took a look in the can. She took a look at the terrified beastie ... "Aaah! Don't hurt it!!"