[Archived] Squirrels

[Mike Graham]

I guess that one or two other MB members have problems with those horrible grey squirrels.. Yesterday I saw one trying to pull back a plastic soffit board on a neighbours house to get into his actic.

We have managed to get rid of most in our area and I have enjoyed many pleasant hours shooting the nasty blighters (don't tell Jeru the watishecalled as he will probably want to arm them).

Maybe a better use of the corpses would be to eat them rather than let them rot in the fields opposite.

Has anyone tried squirrel and do you have any good recipes please......nothing too spicey.

Thanks.

[Amo]

"Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If a squirrel ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!"

[Al]

Leave them alone. They are beautiful and highly intelligent creatures.

[T.J.Newton]

I guess that one or two other MB members have problems with those horrible grey squirrels.. Yesterday I saw one trying to pull back a plastic soffit board on a neighbours house to get into his actic.

We have managed to get rid of most in our area and I have enjoyed many pleasant hours shooting the nasty blighters (don't tell Jeru the watishecalled as he will probably want to arm them).

Maybe a better use of the corpses would be to eat them rather than let them rot in the fields opposite.

Has anyone tried squirrel and do you have any good recipes please......nothing too spicey.

Thanks.

Lovely post,

the fact you're gloating about killing these animals is what really turns my stomach.

Leave them alone. They are beautiful and highly intelligent creatures.

unlike anybody that would even consider killing and eating them.

[cn174]

Red squirrels are good. Grey squirrels are bad!!!!

[colin]

Preston,

Nice one, greys are vermin. Did you know if you trap one it is illegal to let it go?

Any old search engine will find you a recipe. There's even one on the BBC web site. Or am I being naive and you are just trying to wind people up?

If you get yourself over to Formby there are a few red squirrels knocking about. Let us know if they taste diffent.

[cn174]

Preston,

Nice one, greys are vermin. Did you know if you trap one it is illegal to let it go?

Any old search engine will find you a recipe. There's even one on the BBC web site. Or am I being naive and you are just trying to wind people up?

If you get yourself over to Formby there are a few red squirrels knocking about. Let us know if they taste diffent.

Hehe, red ones are on their last legs as it is without you eating them

It's also illegal to kill one.

Apparently grey squirrels are palatable to humans but red squirrels are not, which is quite a nice little quirk.

[Mike Graham]

I love red ones. Indeed I have donated to a reserve in the Lakes, near to Whitehaven.

It is the grey ones that are interlopers and vermin.

[Audax]

The North American grey squirrel was deliberately introduced to Britain and other parts of Europe during the 19^th Century. Since then, despite being released merely as a curiosity to satisfy the Victorian penchant for novelty, the adaptable and hardy grey squirrel has thrived in Britain’s parks, gardens and woodlands. Indeed, it has now become so widespread, that it is accepted by many as a natural part of our wildlife, much enjoyed by many people and perhaps one of

http://conservation-issues.co.uk/Articles%20Pages/Grey_Squirrel_Article_07-07.htm

Right, they brought the grey squirrels over, I am humane, I would not hurt one but if predators, hawks, owls get after them, that is why there is a balance in nature. Some people try to attract hawks and other animals just to do that. This is about the only answer because the forests are full of them, they will only come back again.

The greys have over run the reds which is unfortunate. If there were not so many of them, it would not be a problem if they were more rare.

[LeChuck]

Right, they brought the grey squirrels over, I am humane, I would not hurt one but if predators, hawks, owls get after them, that is why there is a balance in nature. Some people try to attract hawks and other animals just to do that.

Might as well just use a trap or something there though. It's still the human that created the weapon, it's not nature taking care of itself.

I can see why there is a need to cull the grey squirrels, but surely no-one should take enjoyment out of killing them. It's not their fault.

I accidently ran over one last month and I'm still gutted about it when I remember the image in my rear view mirror. He was carrying a nut and everything.

[Mike Graham]

and everything.

What do up mean by "everything" LeChuck"?

[LeChuck]

What do up mean by "everything" LeChuck"?

Oh nothing, just a turn of phrase.

"He was carrying a nut 'n all". That kind of thing. Doesn't really work in writing but sounds normal if you say it out loud!

I just feel like he was pretty happy that he'd found a nut and was taking it home, then BAM.

[Amo]

What do up mean by "everything" LeChuck"?

He'd just been to Aldi.

[T.J.Newton]

Red/Grey!!!, Racists, there all the same species.

(wait till the Blacks arrive http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-561946/The-pack-mutant-black-squirrels-giving-Britains-grey-population-taste-medicine.html)

[ABBEY]

Squirrels and cyclists shoot em

[T.J.Newton]

Squirrels and cyclists shoot em

'Cyclists', I'm definitely with you on that(but let the crafty little squirrel be)

[colin]

Ah-hem,

The native squirrel is the red squirrel. The Victorians (bless them) introduced loads of wild animals to this country. They introduced the American Grey Squirrel which carries a pox which, although does them no harm, they transmit to the reds & it kills them. The greys also forage earlier and eat all the food that the reds would otherwise feed on. So them grey squirrels are Yanks. They come over here and kill our cute native red squirrels.

Is that better for some of you? Let's gert some nationalistic fervour going.

And just feck off about cyclists. We do no one any harm do we?

[Beta Ray Bill]

It's the damned squirrels that ride around on bikes that are the real problem.

[Audax]

Grey squirrels are also more adventurous and happier foraging on the ground, whereas red squirrels spend most of their lives high up in conifer trees, and their diet is less varied, although both species are generally vegetarian.

http://www.squirrels.info/uk/in_uk.htm

Grey Squirrels are not the only reason there are less Reds and also, the Greys have a different economic niche. The reds are up in the trees usually, the greys spend a lot of time on the ground.

One twilight-time, I was taking a leisure ride on a bike in a park and to my right rather close, an owl swooped down and got something on the ground, probably a squirrel... I didn't want to flutter the owl and all that was going on so kept going.

[Mike Graham]

Friend in pub says he cooks squirrel in a stew with prunes and potatoes. You should remove the bones before serving.

On a separate subject last week I drove up to my cottage to see a ball of fur role across the drive onto my front door mat. It was the resident stoat who had a rabbit by its neck. Sometimes I see the stoat waiting under a neighbours car for rabbits, field mice and squirrel.

And yes I did eat the rabbit which the stoat left when it saw me. Yummy.

[adopted scouser]

Always a rare treat to see a squirrel, red not grey, but please tell me this ingestion debate is tongue in cheek ?! Are you actually Dingles or Philip Schofield ?!

I wouldn't eat a tree rat if it had been prepared by Gordon Ramsay and Kelly Brook wanted me to eat it off her tits.

[ABBEY]

Do they still make squirrel kean choccy?

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[Alan75]

what has a hazel nut in every bite ?

squirrel poo

[T.J.Newton]

Some of the very poor backwards small parts of usa eat squirrel, but only out of necessity as its free and easily caught(its not eaten for its taste), squirrels cause much less damage and mess in general than dirty pigeons, yet there accepted by most.

[Mike Graham]

Some of the very poor backwards small parts of usa eat squirrel, but only out of necessity as its free and easily caught(its not eaten for its taste), squirrels cause much less damage and mess in general than dirty pigeons, yet there accepted by most.

Pigeon (squab) is lovely cooked rare