Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Something (??) digging earth from my flower boxes on utside windowsill at night
What could that be? Cat? Fox? They are right on my windowsill outside, ground floor but not very low and today around midnight while taking rubbish out I noticed earth all over 2 of the window boxes - it had been dug out of them. Put it back in, looked out of the window now so 2.5 hours later and exactly the same.
Really puzzled as was sitting in the room all that time with cats right by the window and have not heard anything digging there.
Has this happened to anyone else?
What could it be?
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Permalink Reply by JJ B on
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GREY Squirrels are officially classed as pests under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 such is the havoc they cause. They are extremely agressive and protective of their young - they reproduce at alarming rates and have pushed the indigenous, less agressive, Red Squirrel out of its habitats.
It is ok to catch and kill them but you must respect certain conditions, otherwise you can be prosecuted for animal cruelty.
Of course you'll always run into the debate about whether we should be killing any living thing! Your call.
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Shoot the buggers!
Aren't they supposed to be reather tasty, roasted with a little Rosemary??
Always wanted to try one.
I know it's puerile but I love asking Americans to say 'squirrel' always seems to come out as 'Skkwerrlllle'. Mirror is another good one.
And before everyone has a pop at me , I'm sure they do much the same to us Brits. ' oh go on, say something it sounds soooooo cute'
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You can shoot them but you have to do it in a humane manner!
You cannot drown them!
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Time to get down to the Wallace collection to borrow a blunderbuss!
That would just vaporize them, you'd probably take out a whole colony in one shot!
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Yours for £4.95 Andy; http://www.wildmeat.co.uk/products/squirrel
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I'm all in favour of reds, beautiful creatures.
If I remember correctly from my youth there used to be a small colony in regents park. I think they were reintroduced but I don't think they lasted very long. The greys killed them or kicked them out. They may also have been taken by 'Goldie' the golden eagle who escaped from the zoo one year. But my aged , addled brain may be rolling everything into one event or year.
But I've no sympathy for greys
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Pretty fair recollection about Regents Park, Andy. And anyone wanting red squirrel action in southern England will find it on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, and in patches of the Isle of Wight.
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Permalink Reply by Dick Harris on
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They can be found en masse in parts of Scotland. Here is one I saw near Inverness at the RSPB Osprey centre.
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