Grey Squirrel

The grey squirrel is a very familiar animal in the United Kingdom, despite not being native. It was introduced from North America during the late 19th Century and since then has displaced the native red squirrel across most of England and Wales, though not Scotland and Ireland. As its name suggests, this squirrel typically has a grey coat with white undersides, though the coat colour can also be quite brown. It is up to 30cm long with a bushy tail almost as long as the body. The hind legs are bigger and more powerful than the front legs. Grey squirrels are mainly herbivorous, eating acorns and hazel nuts, berries, fungi and even bark, buds and shoots. However, on rare occasions when plant food is very scarce they will eat insects, smaller rodents, bird eggs and nestling.
DID YOU KNOW :
Squirrels are very cunning and clever as they can decide whether a nut is worth opening or not just by holding it in their palm and judging it’s weight, then it can tell if its worth cracking open the shell and storing the nut.
You can tell if a squirrel is angry or uncertain - if he is angry he will sound out a chuk-chuk-chuk noise and flick its tail up and down, the faster the flick, the angrier it feels. Whereas, if the squirrel swishes his tail from side to side it means it’s feeling uncertain or trying to prepare for a difficult leap.
It's against the law to release grey squirrels in Britain: any animals trapped must be destroyed.