"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!
:
: Alan
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They are certainly not hibernating here - not too far from you in
Twickenham.

K