Sunday, October 12, 2008
No grey squirrels here
Driving around the roads of West Fermanagh as I do; I have noticed that there are lots of red and no grey squirrels. According to this pdf document in Fermanagh we should have grey ones as well but all the ones I see are red. The Forestry Service has extensive information about squirrels.
Right now I have done an apolitical blog I want all of you to think of ways of bringing politics into the discussion of squirrels.
Turgon @ 09:45 PM
Clearly the red squirrels have ethnically cleansed the area of grey squirrels. Once again proof that animals learn behavouirs from humans…
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 09:49 PMDonnacha - welcome back ! - Red squirrels eyes are closer together?
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:02 PMThe red squirrels are marxist communists who have taken over the means of production and imprisoned in under ground caves all the white squirrels who are democrat and libertarian. Torturing the white squirrels by means of white light and high pitched noise, neutering all white male squirrels to stop them breeding so that eventually they will die out. While giving medals to red female squirrels for multiplying and populating the fatherland.
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:02 PMAnn - themmumms are grey not white mun!
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:07 PMhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4635330.stm
Good to see the natives holding out against the ‘planters’, but it’s only a matter of time.
code word here is numbers...Hmmm
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:16 PMGet out there with the all too numerous guns of Fermanagh Turgon. Never mind TUV dreams of an election - cull the greys or the wee reds are doomed. I have Yorkshire relatives who watched the squirrelly ethnic cleansing there and it sure aint purty!
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:16 PMDewi I’m colour blind :)
OK substitute grey for white - it’s late and I’m off to bed to count sheep.
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:19 PMit sure aint purty!
I knew I came accross Brian before - he’s Walker Texas ranger!
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:21 PMOk, here goes. The NIEA released a report into the preservation of red squirrels and management of grey squirrels earlier this year.
I believe that the non-response into my query of the Minister as to the progress of this action plan is typical of the DUP wall of silence that non-party members are treated, confirming their arrogance in holding this region to ransom, and ultimately doing....absolutely nothing.
How was that....?
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:21 PMRed squirrels have mounted an effective campaign for liberation from the US imperialists, brought here by the aristocracy.
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:22 PMI heard the red ones were almost wiped out because the grey ones would go for their nuts.
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:35 PMOh it’s a joke then,
I seem to have a single grey squirrel in my area. What to do?
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 10:36 PMI regularly have grey squirrels in my garden and used to like them until I learned our American cousins call them tree rats.
The red ones are cuter.Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 11:12 PMAnd they’re good eatin’ Ulsterfan. BTW, according to ancestry.com if you go back far enough Barak Obama is everybody’s American cousin.Don’t know if there’s been a policy statement on squirrels yet though. Be careful of grey squirrels; once one moves in, there goes the neighborhood.
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 11:26 PM“Driving around the roads of West Fermanagh as I do; I have noticed that there are lots of red and no grey squirrels.”
Obviously they don’t use contraception!
Or maybe it’s an omen of sorts?
Anything about it in the bible?
Maybe it’s a prophacy for NI, revealed to you Turgon, by god himself!
Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 11:31 PMGreagoir,
Here’s one. It relates to the lost tribe:
“and then the Lord Jehovah sayeth, ‘verily the people of Turgon and Tufty shall cross over the Erne into the promised land’.”Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 11:41 PMPlanned Squirrelhood ran a walk-in 2ferone special for the greys last year…
When they were handing out brains the greys thought they said trains and took the tin ones.Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 @ 11:56 PMFrom “Ulster Countryside” magazine.
If we are to classify squirrels on the basis of their colour surely here in Norn Iron what will interest people the most is not whether the squirrels are red or grey but rather if they are green or orange. Although the techniques for establishing the ‘community background’ of our fellow mammals are far from scientific and are often based purely on subjective grounds e.g. that a very Catholic looking dog - indicating it’s coat is somewhat unkempt - new technology can assist in tagging animals once their ‘community background’ has been confirmed. Measures can then be taken to prevent cross community problems, similar to those in North Belafast, where ‘Peace’ walls prevent the so- called ‘higher’ mammals from straying into hostile territory and attacking each other.
Next Week: Are Catholic rabbits outbreeding their Protestant Neighbours?
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:04 AMLol Sammy - Munster did well to win that one…
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:05 AMDewi,
very, very, very lucky. And it was against Montauban 2nds. The new wunderkid Earls had a shocker.
Ospreys should now win their group but dont think Kaydiff will make it.
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:11 AMOspresys just need to focus - did well second half to get bonus point but lineout was terrible -Cardiff actually did Ok..- Llanelli - unbelievablly bad - and as for those blasted squirrels....
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 12:14 AM“If we are to classify squirrels on the basis of their colour surely here in Norn Iron what will interest people the most is not whether the squirrels are red or grey but rather if they are green or orange.”
Is it a Catholic squirrel or Protestant squirrel?
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 04:34 AMlots of red and no grey squirrels
They’re still there, it’s just that they’ve been forced out of sight to the <del>back of the bus</del> top of tree.
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 07:27 AMIt’s all grey squirrels up here in Newtownabbey right now ..
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 07:32 AMwhat noone has started painting them green yet?
I surmise that these are actually grey squirrels from neighbouring Tyrone in GAA colours.
Or possibly the grey ones left after been insuled some years ago by Churchill “...the dreary squirels of Fermanagh and Tyrone.....”
And finally either grey or red are they members of The Nutting Squad
We should be told..............
Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 @ 07:45 AM
