Squirrels... a question

[harvey_s]

they take young birds and eggs. atb mick

Presumably in a back garden cats provide a bigger risk to the birds don't they?

[DEAN C.]

Presumably in a back garden cats provide a bigger risk to the birds don't they?

Squirrels will often take eggs and chicks, cats are just as bad(we have one but luckily it prefers mice and a few voles), and Magpies are the other issue and threat to eggs and chicks. This year around our garden and buildings we have had Great tits nesting, Blue tits, Goldfinch, pied wagtail, a thrush, a wren, Whitethroat, Blackbird, pheasant, and a Robin, that I know of.

Squirrels Rabbits and Magpies are the only things I shoot nowadays, but only to protect the large number of nests on our place, I am lucky enough to have a little bit of land and the trees I have planted(about400) are being targeted by rabbits sometimes, squirrels on the more established trees, although the Deer have nobbled four 2 year old 4 foot birch saplings in the last week.

I like to see a few squirrels but they are a nuisance, and I usually wait till there are more than a couple. The foxes like them as a food supplement.

[B&W FOX]

One of the invasive species on natural England website that needs eradicating.