A wanted poster appears on Noticeboard Tree:
Have you seen a grey squirrel?
This is terrible news. Only this week we were going gooey over the antics of one of our red squirrels on the feeder. We knew the dreaded greys were getting closer, but hadn’t realised just how close they were. Argh.
Apparently, the Scottish greys don’t carry the pox that is so damaging to the local reds, so the two may coexist, at least until the English greys spread up from the south with their nasty southern diseases. But even so, the reds would be driven into the conifer plantations and we’d definitely be seeing less of them in the garden and round about. In some ways, that might be a relief. But in all other ways, it would be a crying shame.
October 29, 2009 at 6:32 pm |
What happens if you see one like this!
http://deyank.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/definite-signs-of-fall/albino-squirrel/
October 29, 2009 at 9:51 pm |
It’s still a grey underneath though!
November 1, 2009 at 8:46 pm |
If you phone the number does a mannie come by with a trap? And take said grey away and ‘humanely dispose’ of it once they’re out of your sight?
That’s what they used to do at Formby.
November 1, 2009 at 9:09 pm |
Yes. Or if you’ve got enough of them, they’ll lend you some traps of your own. The other half’s holding out for a squirrel hunt…