In article MI18a.278963$tq4.6205@sccrnsc01, Anne Middleton/Harold
Walker writes


So, serious question, how do you know they hibernate in the Windsor
area?

The complete lack of sightings during the winter.

Alan

If they hibernate in the UK they must be of a different breed than
ours.(USA)......we have both the red and the greys playing in our garden
area every single day.......great fun to watch........(especially now when
the breeding time is upon us)........even in the minus 17 C degree weather
they continue.

Yes, your red squirrel is a completely different species (indeed
different genus) from ours. Unlike our grey squirrel which is yours and
we would like you to come and take them all back, please! And in
exchange we will take all your starlings and house sparrows because they
are both becoming much scarcer over here. Though, of course, we also
realise how much you love them both....:-))

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Malcolm