Just a wee Red Squirrel..

Leroy4bz said:
It is a bit saturated. Never say “only a little red” I’ve never even seen one.
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My wife used to live in Dumfries & Galloway, and they're not difficult to see there. Of course, the Highland Squirrel Club killed more than 100,000 of them between about 1900 - 1946. Bounties were paid by the tail.
 
MartynK said:
My wife used to live in Dumfries & Galloway, and they're not difficult to see there. Of course, the Highland Squirrel Club killed more than 100,000 of them between about 1900 - 1946. Bounties were paid by the tail.
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Martynk I lived on the Isle of White in my twenty’s and at the time didn’t know they were living there. They’re few and far between down here in Hampshire.
 
Leroy4bz said:
Martynk I lived on the Isle of White in my twenty’s and at the time didn’t know they were living there. They’re few and far between down here in Hampshire.
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I've never lived in England and, I must admit, I know very little about Hampshire. Do you have greys? The two species seems to co-exist well enough where there is extensive coniferous woodland, but greys have the advantage in other habitats.
 
MartynK said:
I've never lived in England and, I must admit, I know very little about Hampshire. Do you have greys? The two species seems to co-exist well enough where there is extensive coniferous woodland, but greys have the advantage in other habitats.
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Yes we have plenty of greys, but not so many, if any extensive coniferous woodland.
 
THIRTYFIVEMILL said:
Plenty of time to come back over, Leroy!
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Things have changed drastically for me, I’m now a Paraplegic from chest down. Don’t know if you knew it? But I lived in the Star pub in east Cowes, mum was the landlady. Last time I was over it had turned into a car park for the ferry. Back then I was a Grockle:)
 
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Leroy4bz said:
Things have changed drastically for me, I’m now a Paraplegic from chest down. Don’t know if you knew it? But I lived in the Star pub in east Cowes, mum was the landlady. Last time I was over it had turned into a car park for the ferry. Back then I was a Grockle:)
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Oh goodness, no, had no idea. The Star Inn must have gone many years ago. We live in East Cowes ourselves, at the top of Clarence Road. Interestingly, I found this when I googled the pub name: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/hampshire/cowes_star.html
 
It’s a small world. I was there in the 90s. Back then you could leave a pint on the bar of four pubs within a few hundred yards of each other:)Often played the drinking game of having a drink in all the pubs in west Cowes and then running to catch the last chain ferry:)
 
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