Red Squirrels

ruedetropal · 04-12-2011, 14:17

I was talking to someone locally, and they said there was a Squirrel festival in Rishton which involved local schools, and also some red squirrels in a local woodland , but I can not find anything online via Google. Wonder if anyone here can help. It is for a local project I am working on.

accyman · 04-12-2011, 18:28

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Originally Posted by ruedetropal

I was talking to someone locally, and they said there was a Squirrel festival in Rishton which involved local schools, and also some red squirrels in a local woodland , but I can not find anything online via Google. Wonder if anyone here can help. It is for a local project I am working on.

only thing i can think of is that it will be refering to cut wood a local wildlife/park area in rishton

maybe if you google teh parks name info will come up ?

Less · 04-12-2011, 18:55

You have to be really, really, lucky to gather enough of them together to make a decent meal from one nights searching for road kill.

Margaret Pilkington · 04-12-2011, 19:13

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.

katex · 04-12-2011, 19:33

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

Can't see anything under the Prospects Group, and note this website from Wildlife round Rishton. 'No red squirrels ever sighted'..

Wildlife and Animals in Rishton.

susie123 · 04-12-2011, 19:55

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

I've seen them on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour which is a well known habitat and a couple of years ago I saw one at Buttermere in the Lakes. Formby dunes are supposed to be full of them but when we were there in 2008 all we saw were signs saying Squirrel Pox Beware!

susie123 · 04-12-2011, 19:57

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Originally Posted by Less

You have to be really, really, lucky to gather enough of them together to make a decent meal from one nights searching for road kill.

Got any recipes Less? I've got one in the freezer, bought from a farmers market.

Margaret Pilkington · 04-12-2011, 20:00

you can use any rabbit recipes to cook it Sue.......somehow I couldn't fancy squirrel pie, or squirrel stew.
I was quite put off rabbit when we fell on hard times and my fathher killed the pet rabbit to eat. Cried for days. I was only 11 at the time.

DaveinGermany · 04-12-2011, 20:19

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all we saw were signs saying Squirrel Pox Beware!

And all the posh ones at Ainsdale avoid the Chavvy ones at Formby, who by the way are on a strict course of penicillin for their complaint (It's what they get for going clubbing in Southport).

garinda · 04-12-2011, 20:50

I've seen red squirrels near Malham, and there's a lot at Formby.

Eric · 04-12-2011, 21:10

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

garinda · 04-12-2011, 21:13

Sorry for the thread wander.

I did think I saw a red squirrel at Brookside, Oswaldtwistle, in 1968.

But it was probably a grey one, and an over active imagination, brought on by too much Beatrix Potter.

I was just searching, to see if I could find the last reported sighting of Squirrel Nutkin locally, when I came across this.

'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.'
Folk narratives - Katharine Mary Briggs - Google Books

Who was Taimi Boswell?

Another search...

Mossycoat is a fairy tale collected by Katherine M. Briggs and Ruth I. Tongue in Folktales of England.[1]
Also included within A Book of British Fairy Tales by Alan Garner.
Their informant was Taimi Boswell, a gypsy, at Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, January 9, 1915
Mossycoat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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?

cashman · 04-12-2011, 21:13

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

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.

Last reds i noticed locally was mid 90s in the clough at back o Bamford Crescent, used to sit in conservatory n watch em, they seemed to vanish the year before we moved,to be replaced by the pesky greys.

cmonstanley · 04-12-2011, 21:21

seen loads on arran during the summer.

cashman · 04-12-2011, 21:24

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seen loads on arran during the summer.

They will be from accy........run away from the dogs.