In praise of Grey Squirrels

[Le Sanglier]

Worse than Zombies then! certain there is no deer damage there?

[Gollum]

Some of you might or might not approve of this one.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ya6z-NlDo]squirrel Launcher!!! - YouTube[/ame]

[timberbear]

Grey's have a massive impact on woodland wildlife, raiding birds nests,feeding on dormice and even raiding bat roosts. Shoot to kill or just slug it out in a tree.

[NI Tree]

there aliens here that should say enough

Edited December 3, 2012 by NI Tree

[Dean Lofthouse]

Worse than Zombies then! certain there is no deer damage there?

 

All fenced off Stumpy, I,ve watched the little sods, they like sit there chewing away knowing you are watching them, like.......taking the mick. They also know what range my gun is zeroed at as they never come any closer, unless of course I don't have my gun with me.....they also have X-ray vision....because they can see through the landrover outer skin. I,ve tried it......you go down with no gun behind the seats, they come near, you go down with a gun behind the seats, they don't come anywhere near......they are some strange alien being with super powers that has been sent from another planet to drive us insane.

[Albedo]

Just a question.

 

If the greys weren't here and the reds were as populous. Would they not carry out similar squirrel type behaviour, such as eating birds eggs etc?

 

Then you lot would condemn them as pests and shoot them all.

[Treemon]

Some of you might or might not approve of this one.

 

 

Haha that made my day - going to find the cullunder and some bungies:thumbup:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Depends on numbers.

 

Humans are at pest proportions, we should have a cull

[Le Sanglier]

I am unsure of the verity behind the demonisation of them. Impact sure but magpies jays etc also, I just think they are a convenient pantomime villan. I come from West Sussex with acres of mature Hornbeam, loads of greys in the canopy and no discernable loss of trees.

I am not suggesting they are all good but maybe it's time we re-assessed them.

Rabbits, brown rats, fallow deer, sika deer, sycamore the list goes on.

I find this obsession with native species being "good" and all introduced "bad" a bit daft.

As if the fauna that was left here after the last ice age was in some way "perfect and right"

[Le Sanglier]

All fenced off Stumpy, I,ve watched the little sods, they like sit there chewing away knowing you are watching them, like.......taking the mick. They also know what range my gun is zeroed at as they never come any closer, unless of course I don't have my gun with me.....they also have X-ray vision....because they can see through the landrover outer skin. I,ve tried it......you go down with no gun behind the seats, they come near, you go down with a gun behind the seats, they don't come anywhere near......they are some strange alien being with super powers that has been sent from another planet to drive us insane.

 

Fair enough, clever and tasty!