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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: woodsman on December 17, 2008, 06:06:01 pm

Title: hi.
Post by: woodsman on December 17, 2008, 06:06:01 pm

and hi again .
am poor at computer skills , but may have some helpful input at times .
-i found this site when looking for somewhere to rant about squirrel damage in young tree plantations , .
i have been studying this / getting upset .
will share my info when typing finger rested .
have no smallholding myself , but have worked for various ventures .

Title: Re: hi.
Post by: doganjo on December 17, 2008, 06:17:05 pm

Welcome, Woodsman.  So long as you don't shout (TYPING IN UPPER CASE) everyone here will forgive the lack of computer skills, since all of us (except Dan) have varying levels of knowledge.  And you don't need a smallholding - Rosemary will tell you that - just 'aspire' to it ;)  We all just like chatting about the land, humanity, and animals and our love of these.

I assume these are grey squirrels, and I had no idea they did so much damage as to enrage a tree man.  Do Red ones not damage the trees to the same extent? or perhaps not at all?
Annie

Title: Re: hi.
Post by: kaz on December 17, 2008, 07:10:41 pm

Grey squirrels are a real menace. >:( Have lost two young oak trees this year ( about 30 year old) to squirrel damage where they just strip the bark all round the tree and it starves to death. :'( :'(

Title: Re: hi.
Post by: Rosemary on December 17, 2008, 08:29:23 pm

Hi, woodsman, and welcome.

I love red squirrels - tell me they aren't vermin....

Title: Re: hi.
Post by: hexhammeasure on December 17, 2008, 11:11:01 pm

grey squirrels are real menaces tree stripping egg stealing garden munching pests my father trapped 127 around here this year. although that was less than he got last year