Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
At 09:48 AM 25/10/04 -0400, Webwalker wrote: Are the Koalas as much beloved by their human neighbors as they are by those of us who see them only on TV and occasionally in a zoo, or are they considered destructive, etc. Are they protected? Dear Susan, Yes they are protected, and Yes, most of us love them. I know they were a real nuisance down on my Granny's farm because there were too many of them and they were killing the beautiful Eucalyptus viminalis trees. But here they're great to have around David in Ballarat Susan David Collyer wrote: Dear Susan, Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive out the other squirrels? No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? David in Ballarat :_ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
i was wondering about all those squirrels everybody's writing about . are they all tree squirrels ? The black, red, grey and fox squirrels are all tree climbing and dwelling squirrels. (The black ones are prettiest, but the fox ones are rather cute, with orange tummies, and round here are definitely the largest and most prosperous. We don't have any red ones) Sue (In the north suburbs of Chicago) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
W & N Lafferty a décidé d' écrire à Ò[lace-chat] Black squirrelsÓ. [2004/10/25 23:23] > > And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the > enormous > iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for > something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush > again. > wow.. I'd love to have kangaroos around though not grazing on my plants . maybe i should go looking for wallabies in fontainebleau forest ... i've always loved kangaroos . one of my aunts remember taking me to the zoo when i was about 7 and having to go the kangaroos first ...VBG.. i was wondering about all those squirrels everybody's writing about . are they all tree squirrels ? dominique from paris , france that was really warm yesterday and is real cold today... weather!! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels
Noelene, during one of those mice plagues, we stayed in a motel in Bathurst (for the non- Australians, Bathurst is a quite large city a couple of hours drive west of Sydney). All evening our eldest son, then aged about 15, kept driving us mad by saying "there's a mouse.there's a mouse". I put it down to his trying to scare his younger siblings.However, after we put them to bed in the other room, we settled down with a quiet cuppa - and lo and behold, there *was* a mouse! So this picture of righteous indignation, complete with *beautiful* English accent, marched down to the owner of the motel to complain. He provided me with a mouse-trap and cheese, which didn't really placate meI was horrified to find a mouse in a top-class motel. I'll cut the long story short - suffice to say I didn't sleep at all during the night - we caught three mice, and heard many others scratching around inside the wall cavities in both our rooms, and I've absolutely refused to stay in that motel ever since! Needless to say, the manager blamed it all on the mouse plague, but our friends who live in Bathurst (and who live on a 5 acre block on the outskirts of town,) were adamant that *they* hadn't had trouble with mice coming in from the fields, so didn't understand why the motel in the centre of town should claim to do so!! Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) W & N Lafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Chat about squirrels scambering about, and David's reference to grey Koalas (which are few and far between) brought to mind the grey mice plagues that infest our wheat growing areas in Australia some years. Makes me shudder to think of them. And the only grey things that invaded my garden (before I closed the enormous iron gate every night) were over a metre high grey kangaroos looking for something to eat - now we've finally had a bit of rain, they've gone bush again. Noelene in Cooma [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nlafferty/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
David said. > > No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? > I thought more of possums than koalas. We do have small grey kangaroos over in the bush(forest) behind our house. Even though I have seen a dead koala on the road I haven't managed to spot a live one in the trees. I haven't heard one either, they make a scarey sound. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
Here in the Boston area we have red, grey, and quite a few black squirrels. The black ones are new in the last ten years or so. I've heard that they are a mutation of the grey squirrels, other than color, no difference. The red squirells were also "new" in the sense that they grey squirrels had driven them out years ago, or so I was told, but have somehow made a come back. I had been told that the grey squirrels are much more aggressive than the red ones, but people who have red squirrels in abundance say the opposite. The red squirrels are definitely smaller than the grey squirrels, at least around here. They seem to go a little "crazy" in the fall, and so do the chipmunks -- always dashing from nowhere in front of cars, or stopping for a bite to eat in the middle of the road and not moving for *anything* -- it's a wonder any of these species survive! Regards, Carolyn PS so much of what I wrote above is "I've been told ..." so I did a little looking it up -- apparently the "Black squirrels are a variety of the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis And one town, Council Bluffs, IA claims to have had black squirrels since the 1840's (so much for appearing in the last ten years ...). For those of you who are interested, there are also White Squirrels -- the photo of the little rodent is very cute -- but I haven't time to get into that! Carolyn Hastings Stow, MA USA > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Webwalker > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels > > > I live in NE Ohio -- about 60 miles in from both the N and E borders. > About 20 years ago, a community of black squirrels were living about > 20 miles north of here--and were prevalent. No one I knew had ever > seen black squirrels before. Now there are black squirrels where I > live--both black and brown. > > Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they > drive out the other squirrels? > > Susan Webster > Canton, Ohio > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the > line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
Dear Susan, Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive out the other squirrels? No. Sorry - only grey Koalas. Do they count? David in Ballarat :_ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
"The *cat* loves them. Every now and then I catch him in the window watching squirrelevision. " We have red and grey squirrels here in Scotland - the red becoming increasingly rare alas, in part due to one of my cats. He loved them but did not confine his activities to watching them - didn't know they were a protected species! jenny barron NE Scotland, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
At 09:21 AM 10/24/04 -0400, Webwalker wrote: >Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive >out the other squirrels? We have black squirrels -- new since DH lived here as a child -- and I see fewer of the brown ones now than I did when we first moved in. I've also seen squirrels that seem to be crosses, but I don't recall seeing any crosses this summer. The *cat* loves them. Every now and then I catch him in the window watching squirrelevision. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
We have a small number of black squirrels here in the northern suburbs of Chicago, but they are not the dominant ones. They are generally smaller than the ordinary grey squirrel and even smaller than the fox squirrels Sue I live in NE Ohio -- about 60 miles in from both the N and E borders. About 20 years ago, a community of black squirrels were living about 20 miles north of here--and were prevalent. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels
I know Stanford has both black and ground squirrels, and they both seem to be doing fine. The ground squirrels are much more numerous - in fact on average there's at least one in sight wherever you are on campus. I'm not sure about brown tree squirrels though. At Caltech we have lots of brown tree squirrels (I think that's what they are, anyway), and I think a few black squirrels, but again the brown ones are much more numerous. So as far as I know black squirrels don't drive the other ones out. Weronika On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:21:05AM -0400, Webwalker wrote: > I live in NE Ohio -- about 60 miles in from both the N and E borders. > About 20 years ago, a community of black squirrels were living about 20 > miles north of here--and were prevalent. No one I knew had ever seen > black squirrels before. Now there are black squirrels where I > live--both black and brown. > > Do any of you have black squirrels, and if so, do you know if they drive > out the other squirrels? > > Susan Webster > Canton, Ohio > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Weronika Patena Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
