Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels

2004-10-26 Thread Sue Babbs
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-26 Thread David Collyer
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-25 Thread David Collyer
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,

RE: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-25 Thread Carolyn Hastings
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-25 Thread Allan+Yvonne Farrell
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels

2004-10-25 Thread Ruth Budge
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black squirrels

2004-10-25 Thread dominique
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-24 Thread Weronika Patena
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

Re: [lace-chat] Black Squirrels

2004-10-24 Thread Sue Babbs
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.