How killing invasive grey squirrels boosts threatened reds

[@extraditori6604]

TOTAL GREY DEATH

[@Dover939]

The forests have fallen... Millions of squirrels must die

[@hulahula6182]

BILLIONS!!

[@wserthmar8908]

Today I learned American red squirrels exist. I had previously thought American squirrels are gray only

[@garrymobey912]

@@wserthmar8908 Hi pal, American red squirrels are a different species from Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris).

[@wserthmar8908]

@@garrymobey912 , no doubt! I was more talking about the colours of their fur. But still thank you for pointing this out for anybody coming upon this comment thread

[@highlow6262]

Redsquirrelchuds its just getting started

[@ricardo_9726]

Total grey death

[@PhadexLXIV_Greece]

RedsquirrelCHADS*

[@afriendlymedic1927]

The great replacement

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

greyt

[@Oakleaf700]

@@l3eatalphal3eatalpha 🤣

[@hoxworth983]

Based!!

[@davewalker3873]

I really enjoy hunting greys. Its sad that i have to travel if i want to see reds.

[@JETJOOBOY]

I have difficulty if I can't eat what I shoot but fully would like to assist in the return of Reds... I suppose the grey pelt can still be used

[@davewalker3873]

@@JETJOOBOY tails maie great trout flys.

[@jeremiahjohnson6971]

Come to minnesota reds are a huge nuisance and every where... I shoot so many reds and greys...

[@davewalker3873]

@@jeremiahjohnson6971 id love to!!!

[@amymedlen]

@@JETJOOBOY you can eat grey squirrels

[@williambarwick9035]

I have never seen a red squirrel in real life and that thought makes me sad

[@richardvalvona1159]

Go to the Isle of Wight. There are plenty of reds there but you have to be in the woodland areas for a better chance to see them.

[@Johny40Se7en]

Get off your lazy arse and go somewhere that has them...

[@brentjodrey5114]

lots of Grey's here in Nova Scotia and many black ones too , and reds too

[@Johny40Se7en]

@@brentjodrey5114 Never seen black ones in real life. Smaller or bigger than grey ones?

[@HSE331]

@@Johny40Se7enhey retard the isles used to be full of reds before these mutt rats

[@daleolson512]

I live on 1Ac with a creek flowing thru in Kelowna BC Canada. Lots of birds, robins, various woodpeckers, orioles, western tanager and many others. An amazing sanctuary. Invasive Gray squirrels arrived and within 4 mos the property was void of any birds. Eggs and nestlings eaten. Had to get a top end pellet gun and set up a feeding station. Some Birds returned a year later, but only some common species. 4 years now I have to bait & cull the eastern grays and still some of the rarer birds have not returned. Most people still think these monsters are cute and would be horrified to know I actively control them, for the sake of our indigenous species including the harmless Western Red squirrel. Local education on these beasts would be helpful to say the least.

[@lukethekuya]

TGSD

[@HatterTobias]

Fully agree with that

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

What does that mean

[@HatterTobias]

@@XtraOrdinar-y Total Gray Squirrel Death

[@extraditori6604]

​@@XtraOrdinar-yTND TJD

[@thesilentmothtrapper4373]

The government needs to do help these groups and start something like this against mink

[@sw_charlie]

YEAH.

[@geraltofrivia8529]

Government is a clueless bunch of morons, led by vocal idiots like chris packham.

[@KiyokaMakibi]

GeraltofRivia Don’t tell me that guy supports greys..

[@joshnesfield3945]

@@geraltofrivia8529 Yes, known Conservative minister and old etonian Chris packham

[@warren4792]

My dad has killed well over 200 grey squirrels by my house over the past year and a bit. He doesn't do it professionally. We just have a bird feeder outside our kitchen window, so often when he's making a cup of tea one will be there stealing food, so he will go and get his air rifle and kill it. Or one will get trapped in our polecat trap, so we just shoot it in the cage, bit brutal, but it must be done. Ever since he's been killing many of them, tons of rare and unique birds have been by our house making nests and getting food from the bird feeder. Its really nice to see how many birds are back in the area again. Probably a bit too many now lol. Often wake me up in the morning when I have my window open. Really shows how much damage these things cause.

[@johncrosley1]

If the birds are bothering you get your dad to shoot them as well, he clearly enjoys killing things.

[@Stringer13ell]

​@@johncrosley1its like people who fought in the war, they just liked killing germans. Oh sorry, after reading your comment I fell into a momentary lapse of spackerism.

[@HatterTobias]

Damn, what a based TGSD warrior he is

[@lukethekuya]

TGSD

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

@@johncrosley1he shoots the squirrels to save other wildlife

[@Chazb5046]

Can’t remember the last time I saw a red squirrel in my local area. Be grand so see one again

[@davekendrick7231]

I’ve just been asked not to shoot squirrels on some land because one of the family has gone vegan, shame as it’s full of greys

[@thesilentmothtrapper4373]

Shoot them anyway is that possible?

[@JC-un4bg]

Could you imagine if it was the minority's that got the votes .thats not democracy one vegan gets it their way at the expense of everyone else and the reds

[@alanmorris8783]

J C : the minority DOES have the influence in the UK. Hence Political Correctness, Identity Politics, Toxic Masculinity, White Privilege, Historical Revisionism (Churchill was a racist, the slave trade funded the industrial revolution, it’s the British Empires fault for all the dictators in Africa etc) and fear of saying anything about transgenderism, Black Lives Matter, anti-hunting etc without being called something-phobic.

[@bellasignora2668]

Darling ! Encourage the Greys off the property in question, with something very tempting, make a feeder / hopper trail if necessary. Mission accomplished. In Bocca Al Lupo. Bella

[@bellasignora2668]

Darling ! It is more than Slightly Obvious, that feeding increases numbers ! ! Excuse me for wrongly assuming, that you, like me, had more than one property on which you shoot, adjacent to several other properties. I am left feeling spoilt for choice, However, I have been asked to these properties for the sole purpose of relocating the Grey Squirrels. To a different world, I might add. Bella

[@MrPh30]

During the occupation in Norway ,some regions there were so much squirrel hunted ,thst most common dish in season was Squirrel in cabbage , instead of Fårikål ,mutton in cabbage. And healthy the population became and it grew . Good to limit the greys over there.

[@garrymobey912]

I completed a LANTRA course with David Allen in the video. It was a well worthwhile day learning the truth about greys. David is a brilliant trainer and mentor. Some of the people's comments on here are not going to help in our quest to help the reds. Some sound like they are blood thirsty Rambo's, give your heads a wobble and keep quiet.

[@brainards11]

I never-ending battle between the Yanks and the Red Coats!

[@gumpycognac4505]

Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the reds into EXTINCTION 🤣

[@cantsay]

I live in the US pacific northwest, we have the same problem here. But I was always under the assumption they came from your continent...from the UK?? I was amazed to hear of them being invasive on the other side of the ocean.

[@annabeltheunicorn9374]

Some idiot of the landed gentry thought they were cute and brought them over from the US in the 19th century. Nice to eat but buggers to skin lol

[@doubles6508]

​@@annabeltheunicorn9374 what bellend thought they were nicer than the ones we already had here? 🤦‍♂️

[@FewFew77]

The Canadians in Vancouver first brought them to the pacific northwest

[@malcolmdonnison3987]

They came from your country , brought into ours by a lord who thought they would be a good addition to to wildlife on his est 🤬

[@gumpycognac4505]

@@malcolmdonnison3987😂 Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the reds into EXTINCTION 🤣

[@ADOTlied]

So your racist against the grey squirrels? Shouldn't you be judging the grey squirrels by the content of their character and their nut gathering abilities? I mean your not running off the Muslims?

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

Grey squirrels kill our native red squirrels. And they destroy trees and birds

[@thehenintheswamp4658]

slimes are an invasive species no local wants them no local welcomes them

[@gumpycognac4505]

@@XtraOrdinar-y Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the female reds into EXTINCTION 🤣

[@RiojaRoj]

Doing my bit in my garden in Lancashire, total about 65 so far 👍

[@hateliberals2299]

well done indeed👌👌now that is A nice amount to be going on with👌👌please keep it up👌👌every one you kill helps our red squirrels & beautiful trees👌👌top man👌👌🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@johncrosley1]

Nothing to be proud of!

[@sjacrane]

@@johncrosley1it’s for the sake of conservation.

[@johncrosley1]

@@sjacrane. My reply was aimed at Davewalker and others like him. He euphemistically says he likes hunting grey squirrels, when he means killing, nothing to do with conservation. Do you remember the foot and mouth culling? So-called “marksmen” running wild among terrified cattle shooting wildly, killing and wounding. It was all caught on camera and shown on the news at the time. Eradicating the grey squirrel should be a painful task, not an enjoyable pastime. My opinion is that it won’t work anyway, there are too many and we should learn to live with them, and who gave us the right to wipe out one species of animal in favour of another.

[@lukethekuya]

TGSD

[@stewartfrerotte7227]

good job and the grey's are good to eat

[@alanmorris8783]

Though air rifles are an excellent way of taking squirrels, I cannot but think that the feeding stations provide the perfect nutrition for them every second that they are not being shot. Perhaps the use of shotguns to destroy their drays around breading time could be the initial culling method, with the air rifle/feeder being used to mop up the stragglers?

[@alanmorris8783]

Koruvax : you are absolutely right. Some combination of the two and some public willpower could make a huge difference

[@mikeheasman2594]

Its not good practice to just shoot dreys as native birds sometimes use them for nesting.

[@kennethbailey2616]

Squirrels taste great too!

[@fieldsportstv]

www.fieldsportschannel.tv/ask-tel-best-drink-to-accompany-squirrel/

[@jelly.212]

Lots of red young squirrels getting greyed nowadays, its sad what it has come to.

[@lukethekuya]

We need to wonder who popularized this grey color (((phenomenon)))...

[@PhadexLXIV_Greece]

​Kek

[@gumpycognac4505]

🧬 genetically superior and STRONGER😎

[@kennethbailey2616]

No grey squirrels in Montana that I know of, we have fox squirrels and I enjoy feeding the little thieves along with my birds. :)

[@roycedejong1576]

I use my shooting skills with my .22 rifle 22 pistol and 4.5 mm rifle to shoot those greys down - I find it is way better in winter because there are no leaves on the trees and it is pheasant season so they will be all over the feeders and the gamekeeper gives us some pheasants too. I shoot corvids rabbits and woodies too.

[@craigsimpson3901]

So much for multi culturism

[@hulahula6182]

Not culturally compatible either

[@mikeheasman2594]

Eastern greys are good swimmers so the buffer zone needs extending all along the Menai straights.

[@No-kb9oy]

What side are you on?

[@fieldsportstv]

Countryside (geddit?)

[@marknowak6683]

I live where there are Red, and Gray Squirrels. They are all doing ok.

[@rolexr]

Is it allowed to shoot them in the UK without any permission? In Germany you got to have a hunting license for that!

[@fieldsportstv]

No compulsory hunting licences here in the UK. / Charlie

[@JC-un4bg]

Only problem is getting shoots even when you have BASC insurance I know lots of guys who would go camping in the wood and shoot the greys but there's no trust there

[@henrynorth6558]

Insurance?? I can understand if it's firearms or shotguns but their is no need for insurance with an air rifle, as long as all the standard gun safety rules are followed.

[@PortmanRd]

More Pine Martins.

Red Squirrels are a lot more settle then Grey Squirrels. Grey Squirrels are more curious and causes way more damage,, not only to trees, But to Wires and homes..

[@steveolkinevil]

Unfortunatly The way this country is going I'm half expecting a grey squirrel sanctuary popping up soon to protect their rights......

[@fieldsportstv]

You should visit Urban Squirrels... 😁

[@steveolkinevil]

Oh don't tell me that's a save the greys group. I'm part of a red squirrel group in West Cumbria we have a few pockets of reds again now.

[@gumpycognac4505]

@@steveolkinevilnot for long 😂 Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the reds into EXTINCTION 🤣

[@nigelevans5639]

Shame on the government ☹️

[@ymc937]

TGD 🎉🎉🎉

[@davekendrick7231]

The land owners family going vegan has lost me the permission but not their friendship. I will go back if the rabbits re appear.

[@ernestgtipping3313]

If they are vegan whats the bloody difference killing greys or rabbits or are they two faced horse owner who don't want their horses legs broken I go down to my daughters farm & I kill as many as I can of both the rabbits dig holes in the paddocks the greys damage the trees eat the baby birds & eggs from the nests I'm afraid I'd sooner have my local birds that is residential birds because if I come across parakeets that are not residential they will get the same treatment. Cheers Tippo,GB,

[@korywid9542]

I heard the other day that Pine Martins were been re-introduced into an area where red squirrels are...I thought i have heard it all now..Reminds me of some miss-guided councillors from a city near me who re-introduced otters about 10 years ago into the river derwent and now waterway fish stocks for miles around have been decimated as these animals spread to all the surrounding lakes,ponds,streams, becks etc as well as predating peoples small ponds of large fish in their gardens..Yes in peoples gardens that are near our local beck where otters have regularly been seen..

[@PortmanRd]

Red squirrels avoid the Pine Marten easily by going out onto the most thinnest of branches. Unlike the Grey which is much heavier. As for the Otter I couldn't give a rat's arse about your precious fishing stocks. Otters are only now starting to return to their natural habitat after being hunted and persecuted for centuries in the UK, and almost to the point of near extinction. Long may they thrive and multiply.

[@geraltofrivia8529]

Tails are worth money if you can find people who enjoy tying fishing flys.

[@williambarwick9035]

There are tons of greys in my woodland but it’s mostly public wood so I can’t shoot there

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

Just set some traps then go out with an air pistol to dispatch any squirrels and keep quiet

[@gumpycognac4505]

@@XtraOrdinar-ytrying to set my man up for prison time😂 Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the female reds into EXTINCTION 🤣 the reds can’t even begin trying to compete 🎉😊

[@hateliberals2299]

There A complete dam nuisance & dangerous because of chewing electrical cables in people's lofts nearly causing & sometimes causing house fires & causing lots of damage to people's beautiful gardens & stealing all the bird seeds & damaging lots of trees😡😡now that really does piss me off more than anything😡😡shoot em all & save our red squirrels & beautiful trees👌👌🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@reptilianxlol934]

See back in the US we got both squirrels but more grey. But if you show the government this video they should listen to u guys.

[@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503]

The UK red squirrel is the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris); the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) is a different animal.

[@FormerlyNYVulgarian]

Squirrel genocide based on the color of their fur 😆

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

Squirrel genocide based on conservation to protect native woodlands and wildlife

[@Johny40Se7en]

Exactly. It's retarded and docile AF. Muppets regurgitating the same old verbal diarrhea that they've been told by some other clueless muppet who also didn't have a clue. "Oh, greys are not native, so they should be killed to save red ones" Just imagine if we had the same attitude towards Humans. Jesus Christ... Thick as shit, and the main trouble with such hatred, it's like shit on a wall, it lingers...

[@waliza001]

Not easy to get permission.

[@michaelfidoe1831]

@Robert Stallard I live in the Midlands where is your wood

[@michaelfidoe1831]

@Robert Stallard I think you always have a slow spell natural food is abundant just now they'll soon be up to their distructive ways and back on your feeders good luck Rob 👍 keep the faith

[@mikeheasman2594]

Facebook "uk and Ireland squirrels the grey area" maybe able to help.

[@waliza001]

@@mikeheasman2594 Nope/ I tried already.

[@markhammond9453]

@Robert Stallard Hi Rob. I live in Cheltenham and I'm a member of a local grey squirrel control group if you're still looking for someone to help you out?

[@thehenintheswamp4658]

its the humans you have to worry about they are subverting red squirrels int there native country

[@jelly.212]

Stop being anti humanistic

[@PhadexLXIV_Greece]

I mean, the humans were kicked out of 109 forests, and pointing that out is illegal in some places.

[@spyweb314]

If its predominantly red squirrels doesn't that mean there are some grey's left and therefor couldn't it be that no one is planting grey squirrels in the area?

[@Stringer13ell]

There are squirrel plants?

[@davekendrick7231]

The land owner has the final say and is a nice man, there is no point in pis*ing him off, it’s not his fault, when one of the family keeps moaning at you because they are snow flakes it’s like a kid going on and on until you give in, the vegan may leave home one day or get married, who knows, I’m still mates with him and may get invited back one day, hopefully.

[@GazerBeam-1]

Imagine bringing them over to your country now youre complaining about them over taking and being invasive. They didnt choose to be here, you bought them here. The only pest is you lot🤣.

[@coldandaloof7166]

Where did the grey squirrels come from if they are invasive. We grew up hunting grey and fox squirrels occasionally getting a black one here in southern Ohio. Never looked at them as invasive just good eating lol.

[@Gixer750pilot]

The US

[@pittorivers906]

Grey squirrels are native to North America, and were introduced into Europe (this channel is mostly filmed in the UK) in the late 19th century. They wiped out most of the red squirrels due to the greys having a better feeding strategy, and as a result only pockets of reds exist in the UK. You have to take this channel with a pinch of salt given its target audience, but the grey squirrels in Europe are an invasive pest, and 100% need to be culled. It's good habitat management at the very least, as well as food stuff. Interestingly, one of the pockets of red squirrels on an island called Brownsea Island has the same strain of leprosy that caused massive problems in the medieval period. As it stands though, leprosy is nowhere near of an issue as it used to be, but it's a fun fact

[@rolexr]

Didn´t see any grey squirrel here in Germany yet. A lot of red and black´s are around. But....can you tell me why they are "better" for Europe than the greys?

[@mikeheasman2594]

The eastern gret squirrel evolved in an enviorment where there is a higher number off predators which resulted in them having a higher number of young each year to compensate. Once introduced to England they rapidly breed and spread out from various estates. Some of them carry a virus which the eurasion reds have no immunity to, and once a red squirrel contracts the virus it rapidly gets passed from red squirrel to red squirrel. Also if there are greys present it causes the reds distress which results in them not breeding. Recent research by the British Ornithological Trust has shown that the eastern greys will result in exstinction events of some song birds in the uk. Due to this they have been listed in the 10 most evasive species.

[@rolexr]

mike heasman …thank you for that good explanation! 😉👍

[@alexprice1735]

Can anyone point me in the right direction to shoot the greys in or near the Plymouth area.

[@fieldsportstv]

Anywhere you have permission. Stop them crossing the Tamar. / Charlie

[@billyd3510]

no matter what name they go by, the ones here are as destructive as the gray.

[@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503]

Where's here? The UK red squirrel is the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris); the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) is a different animal.

[@renebrock4147]

I'm not for invasives anywhere, and I'm sorry that Britain's having problems with our grey squirrels. But were I you, I believe I would look to see what else may be ringing your trees. Greys don't do that here in the states.

[@mariomaster101official]

I Like Both Species

[@benjyboichambers6030]

Keep up the good work !

[@dannyteebone9233]

Build a wall maybe

[@thomasandfriendstrainfan1969]

Save all animals

[@ulflyng]

..but for how long? And what about the virus from the greys

[@SamSonicVideos]

I want to start grey squirrel hunting to help our red boys and girls!

[@gumpycognac4505]

Guess who’s genetically 🧬 superior, more competitive over food, and larger😂..oh yea, and the dominant male greys are breeding the female reds into EXTINCTION 🤣 the reds can’t even begin trying to compete 🎉😊

[@jamessparkman6604]

Here’s an idea makes a cocktail of two native poisonous snake species then use it on the gray squirrel

[@jamiefoley6250]

I'd have to travel to see the eastern grey lol

[@greattobeadub]

You also need pine martens.

[@johncrosley1]

Just giving psychopaths the excuse to shoot something. You’re not supposed to enjoy killing.

[@lukethekuya]

>even though Grey squirrels ruined the Red squirrel population

[@johncrosley1]

@@lukethekuya Blame the people who imported the alien grey. My biggest objection to culling greys is that most of the people involved aren’t doing it for ecological reasons. They just enjoy shooting animals. Sick bastards.

[@jelly.212]

​@@johncrosley1pls dont go that far, the people who imported them have a lot of power and can ruin your life if you criticise them

[@johncrosley1]

@@jelly.212. The people that imported them are all dead long ago but perhaps l should be worried about the psychopaths who enjoy killing for killings sake.

[@ryderthehedgehog]

yes and?

[@davekendrick7231]

I’ve had a reply saying temp the squirrels off the property. My reply is the greys are uk wide, we can’t corral them into one area we need to eradicate them, if Bella is based in the UK and your anti shooting why are you watching this programme

[@JC-un4bg]

Check our Steven rinella how he make buffalo wings out of greys 😋

[@thomasandfriendstrainfan1969]

Poor grey

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

Poor red

[@PhadexLXIV_Greece]

>Poor gr- ACK

[@alexmetcalfe9341]

A colony of pine martins would soon clear out the greys.

[@seanedwardfitz]

What do the red squirrels do differently to the greys? The reds seem like they do exactly the same as the greys.

[@sjacrane]

The reds aren’t a destructive and invasive species. Didn’t you watch the video?

[@HSE331]

reds are cute and dont look like mutt rats

[@thomasandfriendstrainfan1969]

Keep some grey

[@stevenbelcher5658]

Dat racisms😮

[@XtraOrdinar-y]

No it’s not

[@angelicupstart7611]

field sports do one