Squirrel Nutkin
We've had a visitor recently. Or should I say visitors, we've had more than one. They are here quite often, looking for food, nibbling all the birds' peanuts and running along the fence like deft gymnasts balancing on a waifer-thin balance beam.
It is not only beautiful to watch, as they literally go back and forth, squirrelling their food, it is quite a priviledge to see them. Red squirrels are pretty much extinct from all of England, the only places to see them are Northumberland and Scotland. The grey squirrel has invaded their territory and literally eats them out of house and home (as well as carrying the deadly squirrel pox).
Although as both Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall and Gordon Ramsay have stated, the grey squirrel is inordinately yummy to eat. Perhaps one way of keeping our red squirrel safe? Either way, if a grey squirrel even comes near my little Squirrel Nutkin, it's grey-squirrel-satay time.
posted by VintagePretty at 5:31 pm
4 Comments:
Lovely pictures, a real sign of spring! Since we've moved north I haven't seen a grey squirel yet, only red, which is really fab. The wooded area beside us if full of them, it's a real privilege to see them bouncing along in the trees.
how adorable!!! oh gosh would never imagine eating one though...Hugh would eat anything! haha...
Dorset and Somerset sound wonderful...cant wait to explore England, the Cotswolds look amazing too..oh and Id love to visit the Beatrix Potter museum!
I love red squirrels, we have some in cumbria in some woods near to us, but you have to know the woods to see them.
How lucky you are to have red squirrel's - ours here are all grey unfortunately. Though Bilbo Baggins does his best to reduce the grey population - he's fast enough to catch them on a regular basis.
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