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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    man_at_milletts said:

    This is Sid, one our regulars. As you can see he's a bit possessive about the food box.
    The damage on the roof was done by a Wooodpecker.
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    Do you want me to come round and shoot it dead? Cost you a cupppa tea
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    man_at_milletts said:

    This is Sid, one our regulars. As you can see he's a bit possessive about the food box.
    The damage on the roof was done by a Wooodpecker.
    image

    Do you want me to come round and shoot it dead? Cost you a cupppa tea
    How very dare you! He's alright as long as he keeps to his own box.

    (Anyway I'll take the catch off the lid later today) :-)
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    This is an interesting thread seeing as we experienced a bizarre incident involving a squirrel Saturday evening.

    We were on our way to The Angel in Addington (Kent) for an evening meal and had just past The George at the bottom of the hill in Trottiscliffe. As we rounded a bend in the road we appeared to startle some kind of hawk bird it a tree and as he flew off he dropped something in front of our car.

    I stopped to look and it was a dead squirrel with a few bits pecked out of it. Assuming we had spoilt the hawk's evening meal I pulled the car forward and watched and a few minutes later the hawk swooped down, hovered over the dead squirrel, pick it up and flew off again.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    There you go, puzzle solved.
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,962
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:

    cblock said:

    Well done shooting them, you must feel proud.

    Just doing my job maam
    then carry on missy if it makes you happy
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    I called my squirrel Katrien, but it went bloody mad.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,054
    DaveMehmet said:

    McBobbin said:

    They are queueing up to stare at me through the glass door of my centre parcs chalet, alongside the ducks, moorhens, pigeons, coots, deer and other assorted wildlife that aren't having this sandwich

    My wife & daughter are at elveden this week, I'm driving down for the last couple of days on Thursday. They have the fattest squirrels I've ever seen there.
    Just got back from there... have a great time!
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Used to see Red squirrel's all the time when i lived in Salcombe.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,392
    Badger said:

    Used to see Red squirrel's all the time when i lived in Salcombe.

    Was that every time you left your set Badger? How is Jemima Puddleduck?
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,629
    McBobbin said:

    DaveMehmet said:

    McBobbin said:

    They are queueing up to stare at me through the glass door of my centre parcs chalet, alongside the ducks, moorhens, pigeons, coots, deer and other assorted wildlife that aren't having this sandwich

    My wife & daughter are at elveden this week, I'm driving down for the last couple of days on Thursday. They have the fattest squirrels I've ever seen there.
    Just got back from there... have a great time!
    Cheers, we go there every year, I love it.

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  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Plenty of Badger sets down that way as well.
  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,960
    Covered End said:

    They've emigrated to Bromley. We're overrun. Vote Squexit.

    You're not my old driving instructor? He told me off for slowing down to avoid hitting one of those b*******
  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,960
    Uboat said:

    Grey squirrels are a plague.
    In Ireland, they've used a pine marten reintroduction scheme to get rid of them and it's working. They can't get the reds, because they're smaller and more nimble. I'd love to see that happen here.

    Pine martins have a taste for brake cables as well as grey squirrels - apparently.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Badger said:

    Plenty of Badger sets down that way as well.

    We got a set on out plot. Lovely, but vicious buggers
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    We've got a big fuck off squirrel hanging around in our garden. Never ever seen one so big - it's the size of a small cat.

    Grey squirrels are just rats with good PR
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,266
    I've only ever seen one red squirrel in my life and that was on the Isle of Wight

    Get loads of grey ones in my garden the cats are too clumsy to catch them though. Fascinating things to watch but also a pain in the arse digging up anything and everything to hide their monkey nuts the old slag next door leaves out for them.

    Pine Martens are beautiful things. Look hard as nails in the rodent Kingdom to boot
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,519
    edited May 2016
    We have a population of black squirrels here on the Herts/Beds border. I'd never seen one previously but sightings round here are fairly common.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Rufus is a dogs name said:

    We have a population of black squirrels here on the Herts/Beds border. Never seen one previously but sightings round here are fairly common.

    Love to shoot one of them

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