TrimTheKing
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I don't really want to get into this, but just to pull this one apart, Grey Squirrels are not native to this island, we introduced them, thus they have all but wiped out the natural Reds, and the Greys have no natural predators as such, hence the reason they have run amok.chris_d":nyhhfpmw said:Again, another short-sighted comment. Remember that I said it has taken billions of years to develop the existing control mechanisms - the hysteresis of mother nature works well beyond our life-cycle so it could take a millennia for those mechanisms to 'kick-in' and control the squirrel/magpie populations. We are simply temporary observers on this old, old rock.
Do we have 'billions' more years to wait for nature to take its course or should we be dealing with them ourselves...