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Title: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: BikerGran on June 28, 2010, 08:30:23 PM ..........
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: Manky Monkey on June 29, 2010, 09:28:15 AM Aww.
We get loads of squirrels in our garden. Now the youngsters are about, they chase each other round & round & generally trash the place. We have a wooden feeding box on the garden fence, filled with peanuts. Doesn't take them long to figure out how to open the hinged lid to get the nuts. Once the box is empty, they shimmy up the metal poles to the bird feeders in the middle of the lawn & pinch the nuts from there too. Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: afghanman on July 22, 2010, 03:55:27 PM We have red squirrels where we live 8) I will try and get a piccy of one.
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: tazet on July 22, 2010, 06:26:34 PM We would love red squrrels but they don't come this far south :'( They are so cute.
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: morrag on July 22, 2010, 06:44:58 PM An injection of lead behind the left ear usually does the trick, with "greys" that is..........
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: tazet on July 22, 2010, 07:27:59 PM Yes true but ours are quite funny and watching then chasing each other round the garden makes me laugh. If we had reds here then yes I would probably shoot them.
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: hunter on July 22, 2010, 08:19:23 PM Taz you have to shoot the grey's first,then you may get your red's,
The grey carries a pox which kills the red's. The red's are the native species,the Grey's are imported. Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: bitzman5 on July 22, 2010, 11:13:11 PM Had one of these little furry things in my loft at the apex of the house block it CAME IN EVERY DAY AT ABOUT 8-30AM made a right mess in the attic made its self a good nest had the local council trap it took 2 days it was a grey so the workman said he would take it away and destroy it i asked if i could just free it by taking it out into the country side and was told definitely NO CHANCE AS IT WAS A GREY had a really close look at this animal good grief talk about long claws thy would rip your skin to bits
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: tazet on July 23, 2010, 11:36:19 AM They've got a nasty bite too.
Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: blair on July 23, 2010, 12:51:01 PM reds are the best , we have heaps around us as theres a conservation campaign to keep the numbers up ,
and yes i know my avatar is of a grey before anyone says Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: BikerGran on July 23, 2010, 01:25:59 PM The furry fellow in my pic - was walking through a wood and heard a lot of noise, thought it might be a deer running through the undergrowth after being spooked - but it was 2 squirrels chasing each other! I thought I'd never have time to get the camera out and even if I did they'd never let me get away with the sound of turning it on - and the time it took (my old camera) to get started. Sure enough the first one kept going but this one stopped on a log, looked at me, then sat up as you see him - it was almost as if he was saying "Wanna take my pic? How's this?"
Only thing is I snapped him quick and didn't wait to zoom in so it's a bit small cos it's a clip from the middle of the pic. Title: Re: This little fellow actually posed for me! Post by: Manky Monkey on July 23, 2010, 04:26:55 PM Taz & I were driving through the grounds of the estate we live on today, with Dave 2 lanes & 65 Nova, (hi guys), & spotted a little tawny owl, sitting on the top of a roof, surveying the world, in the middle of the day. Of course, I didn't have a zoom lens to hand. Passed some deer on the edge of the woods as I walked home from the stables a while ago. I think British wildlife is fascinating.
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