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I had to go to my brothers yesterday to set his broadband up
he lives in Preston
while there and after setting things up i was going out back to have a cig and make a phone call .
and this is what i found at the back door
my brother said there are a few of them and if he leaves the door open they will come in the house
excuse the photo it was taken on a phone
 

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I had a sweet little experience a few years ago when I was quietly watching a squirrel digging up some of its little store of acorns. It took one inside a hole in a tree and then came scuttling back, got another one, ran over to me, dropped it at my feet and then scuttled off. :)
 
I love the squirrel sanctuary at Formby nr Southport. Theres loads of red ones there.
 
Lolly said:
I love the squirrel sanctuary at Formby nr Southport. Theres loads of red ones there.
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My first sister-in-law lived next to it -I remember visits there with pleasure - glad to know the place is still preserved, along with the natterjack toads? (not quite so appealing)
 
we used to have lots running around
mercer park in clayton but they seem to have deserted
must be the area not to their likeing
 
I just had to go up to Rossendale General and while i was walking back down there was 4 bunny rabbits on one side of the road, another on the other side and a squirrel ran across the road in front of me. Also saw a baby bunny running into the blackberry bushes.
 
I saw a grey one driving back through Hapton last Saturday. It had no idea of the green cross code. How do I get the remnants of fur from my tyres :rolleyes:
 
We are over-run with grey squirrels here, they run along the fence-tops and pinch bird food from gardens. I sometimes put nuts out on the patio for them but they'll only take them early in the morning. At Dunham Massey, a National Trust house and grounds near Altrincham and only a couple of miles from me, they are so tame they will take food from your fingers. They sit next to the path leading to the house and wait to be fed.

I can't remember the last time I saw a red squirrel but when I was first married and lived out in the country, in Rutland, there were lots of them. Such a shame they have been replaced by the greys in so many places.
 
Channel 4 8.30pm tonight. One use for the squirrels

Taking an unusual turn, they then catch some grey squirrels, seeking to overturn people’s conceptions of them as pests.

After foraging for a wide variety of plants, including pennywort and old man’s whiskers, they take the beautifully tender squirrel meat and combine it with damson sauce, brown sugar and a range of spices to serve it up as 'Peking duck', wrapped in pancakes, to mouthwatering effect and great acclaim from the locals.

(copied from c4 website)
 
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