I have to say that in my part of Somerset, grey squirrels don't seem to have
hibernated for many years now.
We see them all through the winter.
Chris

"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?
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| Red Squirrels, unlike Greys, do not hibernate.
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| But make sure they have something to eat.
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| 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!
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| Alan
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