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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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: "Dave P" wrote in message
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: We get a couple of red squirrels on the bird table fairly
: regularly.
: Aren't they something, and prodigious time wasters when
: you're supposed : to be doing something else. Mind you,
: they haven't been around since we've had the snow. Are they
: hibernating or have they decamped over to you?
:
: Red Squirrels, unlike Greys, do not hibernate.

: But make sure they have something to eat.
:
: The grey squirrels are, at present, in hibernation, but as it seems
: to be another mild winter, hopefully most of them will die off, and
: enable me to have a few of the walnuts I try to grow for myself!

They are certainly not hibernating here - not too far from you in
Twickenham.

....and the Perth grey squirrels are pretty active,too!

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AnneJ
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