"La puce" wrote in message
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BAC wrote:
If you live in an area which currently has populations of both red and
grey
squirrels, and if you wouldn't want to inadvertently kill any red
squirrels
when killing off the greys to protect your bulbs, you might be advised
to
trap the squirrels, rather than poisoning them, since you could then
release
any red squirrel which you might accidentally catch.

Me think it's one of John's parakeets disguised as a squirrel to get to
the nuts.


LOL, quite possible. Or maybe some Scots grey squirrels are so canny they've
started disguising themselves as red squirrels to avoid the chop.