What are you doing to celebrate Squirrel Appreciation Day? Me I'm just being grateful that our squirrel has disappeared. Hope she's not causing too much devastation elsewhere!
https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/squirrel-appreciation-day/2018-01-21/
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Saw a slightly chubby one wandering around the garden the other morning, it had the healthiest coat I've ever seen to be honest. It genuinely looked like a little red panda pottering about.
pestilent songbird-chick eating shithouses
All you apologists for these ambulant carcinomas do realise they are one of the major causes of the domestic songbird population falling off a cliff over the last generation? - not the only cause but a major blight.
To say nothing of the extinction of our native red squirrel through most of its English range, partly from competition but mostly from its introduction of diseases to which our reds had no immunity.
As it is still technically an invasive species, were you to find one in your loft or shed, say, you are forbidden from releasing it into the wild, tis a criminal offence. Keep it captive, if you like, but your alternatives are few indeed, especially if you're squeamish.
I understand they're quite tasty, in a gamey sort of way, if carefully prepared for the pot, but I've never yet had the pleasure.
While we're on the subject of pestilent, carnivorous, american, introduced species decimating our native fauna: crayfish. If you're anywhere near a water course blighted by these yankee monsters, get down there, hoik them out pronto blanch em and chow down, they're raving delicious - miniature freshwater lobster, nutritious and you'll be doing your bit for our rivers and streams too.