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Old 04-12-2011, 21:25   #16
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We got grey, black and red .... thousands of them .... and chipmunks ... and coons .... and skunk ... and the odd fox and coyote walk thru the neighbourhood at nite. Seen wolves in the city too, and fishers, and groundhogs ... last week an ambulance transporting to KGH hit a deer .... And this is in the city
Eric , If you get a wolf in camp , Does someone shoot it ? Or do you just steer clear of it ?
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We got grey, black and red .... thousands of them .... and chipmunks ... and coons .... and skunk ... and the odd fox and coyote walk thru the neighbourhood at nite. Seen wolves in the city too, and fishers, and groundhogs ... last week an ambulance transporting to KGH hit a deer .... And this is in the city
Coons? i'll have to ponder that un.
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Old 04-12-2011, 21:33   #18
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Never heard of a Fishers ?
Fisherman Well i have seen them .
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Old 04-12-2011, 21:36   #19
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My only contact with a red squirrel was a stuffed one in the headmaster's office at Western County Junior School, Great Harwood, which I attended between 1961 and 1965.
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Old 04-12-2011, 21:49   #20
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Eric , If you get a wolf in camp , Does someone shoot it ? Or do you just steer clear of it ?
No ... wolves are shy ... Ministry of the Environment Ontario is attempting to reintroduce wolves into the area in order to maintain the health of the deer population ... the wolves cull the deer naturally, taking the weak and the sick (and probably the stupid)
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They will be from accy........run away from the dogs.
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Old 04-12-2011, 21:52   #22
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Never heard of a Fishers ?
Fisherman Well i have seen them .
They are dangerous animals ... if they decided to move into the city they will kill cats and dogs ... vicious brutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_(animal)
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Last seen local red squirrel.

Accrington, 2007.

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Old 05-12-2011, 03:34   #24
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theres seems to be this myth that grey squirells are pushing out the red squirells.

this is complete nonsence as its pretty clear that teh grey squirells are obviously the red squirells that have just gotten older
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I don't think we have any red squirrels living in any of the woods locally....they were ejectged by those pesky grey brothers.
The only place I have seen red squirrels is on the Isle of Wight.
Them grey squirrels can be a real pest there's one that robs Joan's bird feeder every day and she lives back to a main road, they're cheeky little blitters
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'Another version, “The Little Red Squirrel”, was told by Taimi Boswell at Oswaldtwistle, 2 January 1915. This has the Cymbeline motif of a wager on a wife's chastity.'
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Who was Taimi Boswell?

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If you Google search her name, Taimi Boswell, she's called the 'master Romany story teller'. Especially this tale, The Red Squirrel.

Has anyone else ever heard of her, or her tales?
She was a local politician, well versed in telling fairy tales.
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there are lots of red squirrels at the nature reserve at Formby
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They are dangerous animals ... if they decided to move into the city they will kill cats and dogs ... vicious brutes.

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there are lots of red squirrels at the nature reserve at Formby

nope they recently opened a KFC there and mysteriously they have vanished
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