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Chipmunks in Finsbury Park

i think I saw one playing on the fence near Manor House. I thought it was a baby squirrel but its markings were totally different - with very marked stripes running along its back.

The only thing I've found that looks like it is a chipmunk, which apparently can live wild in the UK according to this report:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/from-wallabies-to-c...

Any other sightings?!

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Permalink Reply by Emma on July 27, 2016 at 20:57
Cool!!!!
Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on July 27, 2016 at 22:06
Some people keep them as pets so they could be escapees. That's how we ended up with the park parakeet mob!
Permalink Reply by matt on July 28, 2016 at 7:44

'A colony of 13,000 poisonous yellow-tailed scorpions has been established in a brick wall at Sheerness, Kent' ... yikes!

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 28, 2016 at 8:49
I remember a programme on TV maybe 20 years ago about there being scorpions living on the platform of Ongar station...my friend was in a punk band at the time and they wrote a song about it...
Permalink Reply by Luke Sanders on July 29, 2016 at 9:13

I've seen one there, by Seven Sisters Road. A nice addition, though don't know how it'll impact the native fauna. It scampered off before I could get a picture, but was definitely a chipmunk.

Permalink Reply by Antoinette on July 29, 2016 at 10:06
As long as Alvin and his chums are few and far between they probably won't have a great impact. I think there are enough factors to keep them in check; foxes, cats and cars etc.
Permalink Reply by Alyson on July 29, 2016 at 10:03

Permalink Reply by Hugh on July 29, 2016 at 10:19

I've found some news about UK Chipmunks in the Telegraph from just two days before you posted, Alison. It reports that they may be carriers of Lyme's disease and explains that they may have reached us by the Channel Tunnel. (Thank God Farrage didn't pick up on the prior to the referendum!).

Permalink Reply by Jennie on July 29, 2016 at 21:58
Yes- I saw this little fellow going in and out of the bins by Manor House station. I'm pretty sure it's a Siberian chipmunk like the one's in the article referenced by Hugh. After a bit of googling I reported the sighting here: http://www.nonnativespecies.org/factsheet/factsheet.cfm?speciesId=3472
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on July 29, 2016 at 22:02
But goodness me, they are cute!
Permalink Reply by Jennie on July 29, 2016 at 22:10
They are!
Permalink Reply by Alison P on August 24, 2016 at 18:23

Yes, that's the very thing I saw! So glad you posted this - from the reaction I got from friends I thought I was losing the plot .. Yes, very cute.

I just reported it via Jennie's website - according to which there haven't been any sightings in London, but a confirmed one near Horley (and various unconfirmed sightings outside London). 

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