Carnivorous squirrel (non boaty)

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There's one (or more) grey around the garden that has taken to trying to catch birds. Not with any success yet that I've seen, but it did take a few feathers out of a pigeon the other day. Is this common behaviour. If so, what is the RSPB doing about it?

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perhaps the squirrel is just very annoyed that the pigeon woke him up in the middle of winter? Pigeons that can fly about etc are probably the equivalent of PWC's to a squirrel

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Increasingly common amongst hungry squirrels who are unable to afford the swingeing new tax on peanuts.
The RSPB have been asked by the Government to provide a database of all pigeons in order that mandatory training in squirrel evasion can be enforced. A pigeon tax will shortly be imposed upon pigeons for the privilege of being on the data base.
Meanwhile, the RSPCA are to provide the Government with a database of all squirrels, in order that they may undergo mandatory training in pigeon catching. A new tax will be raised on squirrels...................

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Hey steady on .. this a typical kneejerk reaction .. we have'nt actually established it was a squirrel or a pigeon. Currently there are many new species being established in Britain so it could have been a wild boar attacking a great bustard ... I do have my suspicions about Ken's selective perspective perception ..

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Grey squirrels are carnivourous - or more correctly , omnivorous. They eat song birds eggs and nestlings and are infamous for this - the red squirrel is vegetarian.
I used to live in an area of London riddled with these pests ( in Germany known as tree rats) and there were no songbirds at all, I have since moved to a relatively squirrel-free area and guess what ? - lots of song birds......
As a boy the Forestry Commission used to give me 6d a tail for them - maybe we should bring this bounty hunting back ??
stephen

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now fatipa is jumping to conclusions. It could easily be the squirrel that is mistaking the pigeon for an oversized hazelnut - another example of the generally lower standards of education for which this rubbishy labour government is entirely to blame.

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Tsk tsk knee jerk reaction again, blaming the education system, its probably the waiting list on the NHS's fault for failing to treat the elderly squirrel's cataracts.

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More likely to be TK's failing eyesite due to imposition of eye testing charges.

Suspect it was a wolf attacking an eagle, both of which are common as muck down here in the sticks.

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Department of Herod Services

not to worry, the answer is apparently to shoot all the squirrels, regardless of furry tails and so on. As with the NHS, looking after the squirrels will merely place extra burden on all the overworked public sector. We should follow the German example and shoot everything, especially squirrels (tree rats), birds (air rats), babies (cot rats) and old people (zimmer rats).

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The pigeons around our way are bloated capitalist vermin, and way too large for a squirrel to ingest in one go, so they get off comparatively lightly. However, there is a regular racket in the trees when the paths of a squirrel and a magpie cross. I can't decide which is the bigger pest.

Neither of them seem to discourage songbirds from frequenting our garden, but we get sparrowhawks nesting in the trees behind us and it all goes very quiet when they pop out for a flit about.............

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Black squirrels (non boaty)

We have more trouble identifying them around here. (North Cambridge)
The local Squirrel population is Black. I kid you not.
You look out the window and think what's that Black cat doing up that tree, tryng to nick the Birds nuts?


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Don\'t let \'em in yer loft Ken

Reminds me of a story. The little beggars got in mine and did no end of damage. Completely shredded whole boxes of me old school and college notes don't you know. In the end, we (boy wonder and I) shushed 'em out with a broom. Thinking all the little blighters had gone I nailed a plank of the hole they'd got in by.

That night heard one still up there apparantly practicing for the gymnastics floor routine at the olympics.

So, laid a trap for it (wasn't much else I could do). Trap went with a whack but unfortunately the thing started running around - most unfortunate. Don't like to go up there now. Might be haunted.

Magic

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That would be a complete nightmare .. almost a bad as a policeman in a helicopter.

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I'll lend you my Jack Russell if you want, Ken. He's a squirrel killer. Starlings, magpies and cats too, given half a chance. But so far he has only ever caught squirrels. Every home should have one.

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