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04-11-2010, 02:01 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: North of York
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| | | Rat masquerading as a squirrel!
Just thought I'd share a smile with you.
Looking out of my kitchen window the other morning I noticed a 'furry' visitor, hanging out of the hedge with its frontlegs on my large peanut feeder (which rests against the hedge whilst hanging up). Hmph thinks I, blooming squirrel, well at least it's all metal, so he wont be able to make off with it. On closer inspection (after I put my glasses on) I realised that the cheeky blighter was actually a rat. The cheek of it, in broad daylight too! What got me was the way he kept in the protection of the hedge as he managed to get a few crumbs, sat back in the hedge, chomped merrily away, then leaned out (still not leaving the protection of the hedge) to help himself to another lot. You've got to admire them even though he'll have to be discouraged. Too close to the houses & my outbuildings with all those lovely electrical cables & pipes on appliances which they managed to destroy last year  .
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04-11-2010, 10:54 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Sandbach, Cheshire
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| | | Re: Rat masquerading as a squirrel!
They get everywhere don't they, the biggest ones I've ever seen where running up and down the railway tracks at Chatham, they where about two foot long from head to tail. |
05-11-2010, 12:17 AM
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| | | Re: Rat masquerading as a squirrel!
About two years ago, i remember looking out of my window on to my back garden, i had hung fat balls in some of my trees; and at the end of the patio i have two bird tables. I use my old bonsia containers full of bird seed. These are placed on the bird table, and are ideal for the birds. The bird tables are festooned with fat balls aswell. On this occasion i was amazed to see a sparrow on the container eating the seed, then he looked over the edge of the table and below on the patio slab was a rat looking up, all of a sudden the sparrow started to flick seed on to the rat below; then he looked over the edge and watched as the rat had a feed. I called my wife to come and watch, she didn't believe me at first until she saw it. It was a magical moment in time. And as usual i thought where is my bloody camera.
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05-11-2010, 02:08 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008
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| | | Re: Rat masquerading as a squirrel!
Perhaps it was a new species, The Squirrirat!  Smart little devils. | | |
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