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Built in 1847, The Man Mo Temple is a picturesque tribute to the God of Literature (Man) and the God of War (Mo), both of whom were worshipped by ambitious students looking to succeed in the civil examinations of Imperial China. These involved rigorous systems aimed at finding the best administrative officials for the state.
Joss sticks are a type of incense used in many East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, traditionally burned before a Chinese religious image, idol or shrine. They can also be burned in front of a door, or open window as an offering to heaven, or devas.
Joss stick burning is an everyday practice in traditional Chinese religion. There are many different types of joss sticks used for different purposes or on different festive days. Many of them are long and thin and are mostly colored yellow, red, and more rarely, black.
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From 2006 to 2023 the Dennis Head Old Beacon was shrouded in scaffolding as part of its restoration and conservation. You see, it's a scheduled monument and worthy of respect.
That's why just out of shot all that ratty old scaffolding remains in an untidy pile. They even shovelled out centuries of guano and put in mesh to stop the birds from filling it up again.
This whole thing was so mired in bureaucracy that they even needed an application and approval to take down the scaffolding and remove the heritage listing from the keeper's cottage because it was supposed that it was already included in the listing for the tower!
These things are why I wonder if that rusty old chair, these pieces of rotting wood, a lobster pot and that blue plastic sandal inside the ruins of the cottage effectively reflect the true respect held for this treasured monument.
"Respect the Environment" in a cool, modern hand-drawn flavor. Don't know if these signs are still up in Geneva, but they were pretty cool in their day.
The Ohio State Reformatory (OSR), also known as the Mansfield Reformatory, is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio in the United States. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until a 1990 federal court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed. While this facility was used in a number of films (including several while the facility was still in operation), TV shows and music videos, it was made famous by the film The Shawshank Redemption (1994) when it was used in the large panning scene and for the Warden's office.
The facility was built between 1886 and 1910. The original architect for the design was Levi T. Scofield from Cleveland, although the creation and construction of the entire building was entrusted to F.F. Schnitzer, whose name also appears on the cornerstone, and is recorded as Superintendent in documents found in the cornerstone. Schnitzer was presented with a silver double inkwell by the governor of the state in a lavish ceremony to thank him for his services. Although the architecture is often described as Germanic castle architecture, it is actually mostly Romanesque.
The Reformatory remained in full operation until December 1990 when it was closed via federal court order (the Boyd Consent Decree). Most of the grounds and support buildings, including the outer wall, have been demolished since the closing. In 1995, the Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society was formed. They have turned the prison into a museum and conduct tours to help fund grounds rehabilitation projects and currently work to stabilize the buildings against further deterioration.
The East Cell Block remains the largest free standing steel cell block in the world at six tiers high. From 1935 until 1959 Arthur Lewis Glattke was the Superintendent. Initially a political appointment following Glattke's work on the Martin Davey campaign, by all accounts Glattke was respected by professionals and inmates alike. He implemented many reforms such as piped in radio music in the cell blocks. Glattke's wife, Helen Bauer Glattke, died of pneumonia three days following an accident in November 1950 where a handgun discharged when she was reaching into a jewelry box in the family's quarters. Glattke died following a heart attack suffered in his office on February 10, 1959. Over 200 people died at the OSR, including a few guards who were killed during escape attempts.
The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society is currently working to restore the facility to its original state. Restorations to date include the removal of debris, replacement of roofing, complete restoration of the Warden's quarters, as well as the complete restoration of the central guard room between the East and West Cell Blocks. The restorations are being funded through donations and tour fees.
The information above comes from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_State_Reformatory
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One of the stops I was really looking forward to was our visit to Wrigley Field. I've been to Chicago several times, but never had the opportunity to visit the "Friendly Confines". The Cubs were not playing the weekend we visited so we elected to take the Wrigley Field Tour. The tour was really great. We learned all about the history of the park and were given access to the box seats, bleachers, press box, club houses and even were allowed in the dugout and field. Pretty cool experience!
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Carlos,
I have the utmost respect for my daughters. I love them very dearly. I trust most of the decisions that they make. You are a decision that Madeline made. This puts you and I in a very curious position. I have a couple rules that I live by when it comes to someone going out with one of my daughters.
The rules are:
1.Use your hands on my daughter and you'll lose them after.
2.You make her cry, I make you cry.
3.Safe sex is a myth. Anything you try will be hazardous to your health.
4.Bring her home late, there's no next date.
5.If you pull into my driveway and honk, you better be dropping off a package because you're sure not picking anything up.
6.No complaining while you're waiting for her. If you're bored, change my oil.
7.If your pants hang off your hips, I'll gladly secure them with my staple gun.
8.Dates must be in crowded public places. You want romance? Read a book.
I hope that this clears any misconceptions about me and my daughters, in your case, Madeline.
I am not afraid to go back to Jackson State Pen, I ate better there anyways...
Mr Peters
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty two metres at 09:38am on Tuesday April 18th 2017,off Via Celio Vibena and Piazza del Colosseo on the second tier within the Colosseo, (Also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre and Colosseum), Rome, Italy. It is situated in Regio IV Templum pacis (Temple of peace).
My tour guide for the day was Larry, a rather handsome and knowledgeable Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis).
Built of concrete and sand, the largest amphitheatre ever built with construction commencing in AD 72 under Emperor Vespasian and completion in AD 80 under his successor Titus. The Colisseum could hold up to 80,000 spectators and was home to gladiatorial contests, slave executions, public spectacles and later, animal hunts and re-enactments of battles and drames using lifts and mechanisms to hoist scenery and animals onto the stage.
An adult entry fee in April 2017 is twelve Euros, which allows a two day pass into the Colosseum and nearby Palatine Hill. Payment to the Yellow-legged Gull for tour duties is open to negociation.... so long as food is involved!
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Total respect for nature .....The pike is a fearsome creature ......carefully handled and returned to the wild..more details for the fishers out there!
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December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy"
74 years to the day, at the very same time the attacks happened, 07h48 - a US Marine Sergeant does a slow salute to a US Marine Officer - Veteran & Survivor of the Pearl Harbor attacks on 7 December 1941 in front of the USS Arizona Memorial
A very intense and emotional moment!
I have so much respect for this guy, getting out there and earning the pennies to keep the wolf from the door.
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Sadly this building burned in 2014. www.sovanow.com/index.php?/news/article/lightning_strike_...
Unexpectedly finding this old home was pleasurable and sad, pleasurable for obvious reasons and sad for the state of deterioration. The house is presented in sepia not for artistic but for practical reasons; the sky was terrible in the color photos, and sepia does allow for clearer display of details. The lengthy portion below is some of what I’ve discovered historically and architecturally about this home. It was, until recently, owned by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and is located in the Dick Cross Wildlife Management Area. Apparently the title has been transferred to the Historical Society of Mecklenburg, which presumably is planning to revitalize the house.
The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places 27 July 1979 with
ID #79003053. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources ID is #058-0066
Elm Hill, a plantation home in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was built around 1800, undoubtedly replacing an earlier home. The original landowner was Hugh Miller, of Prince George County, Virginia, who died in England in 1763. Before his death, he had probably constructed some sort of residence on the property. The property passed to his two daughters, Anne and Jean, the first and second wives of Sir Peyton Skipwith, known as the owner of Prestwould plantation also in Mecklenburg. The structure sits on a hill and before the construction of John H. Kerr Dam and Reservoir overlooked the Roanoke River (now Lake Gaston). It once had elm trees 4 feet in diameter in front yard, hence the name.
It’s a frame 2 1/2 story house (if attic is counted) of molded weatherboard, T-shaped, each side of the main body with a wing and each wing with a small porch at the entrance. It has a gabled tin roof, originally shingle, with no dormers and with plain wood cornices. Evidence (according to the VDHR nomination form for the National Register) points to the wings once having hipped roofs. There used to be 2 pink sandstone chimneys, one on each side of the main body of the house and the wings. It’s possible the rubble in front is the chimney stones. The 17 windows, now boarded up, were 9/9 sash in main body and 9/6 sash in the wings. The shutters had open and shut type slats. At the front entrance was a one-story porch with round columns (possibly Tuscan) and round handrails; originally the house had a porch that extended to the cornice.
Overall there were 8 rooms with 10-foot ceilings; wainscoting was commonly used on the 1st level. Interior doors were 6-panel painted doors and made of heavy heart pine; the walls were plastered and the floors were also of heavy heart pine. The timbers were sawed with whipsaw and rafters had marks of broad-axe; shop made nails and wooden pegs were used throughout. A stairway in the back ell led to both 2nd level and the basement with hewn stone walls and wide oak floor boards. The basement contained a wine cellar, a storage room and the kitchen
Two other buildings are supposedly on the property—a smoke house probably dating from time of house and a crib or milk-house, possibly from the mid-19th.
If you finished this, thank you for your tolerance of my desire for information.
An early photo of Elm Hill in better condition with chimneys and porch is at www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Mecklenburg/Elm_H...
The VDHR nomination form to the National Register is at www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Mecklenburg/058-0...
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five metres at 11:21am on Wednesday 28th July 2021 at 81 Central Parade, in front of Waltrop Gardens, looking towards the remnants of one of the original piers at Herne Bay on the Thames Estuary, CT6 5JQ, England.
This is all that remains of the third pier at Herne Bay, with just the steamer passengers landing stage remaining after a storm January 11th 1978 which wrecked the 3,787ft (1,154m) wooden pier, designed by Wrighton & Co which originally opened in 1899.Further out we see the Kentish Flats Offshore Wind Farm, completed in 2005 and located on a shallow plateau just outside the main Thames shipping lanes. You can also see a cluster of Maunsell sea forts built in 1942 and decommissioned in the 1950's.
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I left at 9am for the One hour journey down with the possibility of sun, cloud and rain showers. At Herne Bay it was time for my usual stop at 'Makcari's Coffee Lounge & Ice Cream Parlour' for a slice of cherry and almond gateaux and a lovely latte coffee before a pleasant stroll on a mixed day. With rain off in the distance I headed back to the car, just getting inside before the heavens opened!
On the drive home torrential rain and wind made it impossible to see the road ahead at times, before clearing and sunny spells dominating. A typical British summer day, you might say!
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Heather, Rosie & Autumn have used their joker.
1st place: ELLIOT! This photo screams “perfection”! Your emotion is incredible, your face is a storyteller, the styling is great and the beast is perfectly added. I respect the editing work on the colored photo too. You did better than your inspiration’s photo, it’s unbelievable! You did really great! I love it! Congrats!
2nd place: TESS! Tess, I loooove this photo! It portrayed Morrigane perfectly! I love the styling, the make-up, the expression, the sword, the birds.. It’s just fantastic! And you really deserve all my respect for doing a wonderful photo by being sick so respect girl, you’re amazing! I love it!
3rd place: KAYLA! What a fantastic photo Kayla! It’s so Abnoba! The forest is here, the river is here, the styling is here, even the arc! I love the pose and the background! You did brilliantly! Well done!
4th place: HANNAH & LACEY! Hannah, what a beautiful pixie! I really love the innocence of the photo, the expression and the pose! It could have been a little bit better with a pixie dress but I really love it! You did great! Lacey, I don’t know why you don’t like this photo, I personally love it! The dress is “OMG” fantastic, the pose is stunning and I love the flowers! And I really love the similarity with the inspiration photo! Love it!
5th place: ADRIANNA! I really like this photo Adrianna! The clothes are really amazing, your make-up is gorgeous and I really love your hair color! The edit work is really good too! I think that it just miss eye-contact with the camera but you did really great!
6th place: JIZEL! Jizel, I like this photo. I love the idea of the deer antlers, it really looks great! I love the top and your face! However, I think that the background should have been a forest or something who belongs to deer and Cernnunos. But you did really good, well done!
BOTTOM TWO:
FELICITY: Felicity, you’re such a beautiful girl but, like last week, I don’t see the theme on your photo. You’ve picked Dana, the goddess who can embody any energy! You could have been underwater, flying in the sky, you had some maybe possibilities. The styling is good but I don’t see any Celtic legends here..
AYUMI: Ayumi, you didn’t turn your photo this week but you’ve already used your joker. You didn’t send me any FM or comments. You did great in the past but will it be enough to keep you in the competition?
After reflection, Felicity & Ayumi, you both go home. I am really sorry, you’re 2 beautiful models and you did great. I wish you best. Felicity, you delivered good photos but too simple for this competition. Ayumi, you could have stayed in the competition but you’ve already used your joker last week and you didn’t give any excuses this week.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TOP 10: Tess, Elliot, Kayla, Rosie, Heather, Adrianna, Hannah, Autumn, Lacey & Jizel!
For this week’s theme, it’s all about music videos! Each of you will have to reproduce the image, the atmosphere, the styling and the lyrics of a music video!
Tess: Come & Get It: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-D1EB74Ckg
Rosie: Try: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15M
Hannah: Va Va Voom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U72hzeBLOw
Adrianna: We Can't Stop: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrUvu1mlWco
Jizel: Want U Back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPgvNlrBfb0
Lacey: Last Friday Night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyXNRrsk4A
Heather: Blue Jeans: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRWox-i6aAk
Elliot: Vogue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI
Autumn: Shake It Out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbN0nX61rIs
Kayla: Saturday Night: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cnD_efmM6s
If you want to change your song, you can but you have to find another girl who wants to change her song too.
Elliot: www.flickr.com/photos/lizzzy3z/9583729781/
Tess:
Kayla: www.flickr.com/photos/57541329@N03/9639201615/
Hannah (joker used):
Lacey (joker used): www.flickr.com/photos/1wantmyloverr1ghtnow/9627125575/
Adrianna (joker used):
Jizel: www.flickr.com/photos/87808124@N06/9543354534/
Rosie (joker used):
Heather (joker used):
Autumn (joker used):
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Three metres, at 12:38pm on Monday May 20th 2019, on a beautifully warm and sunny morning off Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards Road in the grounds of St James's Park.
Situated in the City Of Westminster, the Park spans twenty three Hectares and is the oldest of the Royal Parks of London, with a variety of visiting and nesting birds that include Ducks, Canada Geese and Pelicans.
Sciurus Carolinensis (Eastern Gray Squirrel or Grey Squirrel), a tree squirrel native to North America and first introduced to the UK in the 1870's. Though it was largely resonsible for the decimation of our own native red squirrel population, those are now on the increase and found in certain parts of the UK including Scotland. The Greys are still an ecologically essential natural forester regenerator.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty four metres at 07:27am on a showery morning on Monday 10th May 2021, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
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THE EASTERN GRAY/EASTERN GREY SQUIRREL (SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS)
By Paul Williams
The Grey (or Gray) squirrel, you either love 'em or you hate 'em. Cute and fluffy little funsters or destructive critters who ruin trees, kill bird chicks and trees and damage our homes... oh and it's their fault we lost our native Red squirrels as well!
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I get it and I see both sides of the story of course. For my part, I am a nature, wildlife and landscape photographer who prefers the company of animals and natural beauty to fellow humans who are systematically plundering Mother Earth's resources and killing off her beautiful creatures at an alarming rate! I believe there is a natural order of things, creatures kill other creatures to survive, they adapt to situations and when mankind encroaches on their territory to make a fast buck, those animals sometimes adapt to survive and the order changes. That is the balance of nature which is ever changing and affected by us..... the dumbest of the great apes. Some species are driven out by others, some may be destined to become extinct, the fittest will survive, and sometime a species will need intervention and help from mankind in order to survive... usually as a direct consequence of mankind's own actions in destroying the animal kingdom's natural habitat of course.
I adore these little fellas and at almost sixty years old, I never grew up knowing red squirrels at all. I've seen reds in Scotland and black squirrels in Stanley Park on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, but in my beloved home country of England I have always known and loved the cute little Greys. They visit my garden and give me hours, days, weeks of happiness and wonderful photographic opportunities, and I see them in Parks and forests all around me, so it's time to offer up an insight into the Grey squirrel, much loved, much hated... a sort of Marmite rodent if you will.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A SQUIRREL?
The word 'Squirrel', was first recorded in 1327 and hails from the Anglo-Norman word 'Esquirel', from old French 'Escurel', which was a reflex for the Latin word 'Sciurus'.The Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) is also known as the Eastern Grey squirrel or simply grey squirrel depending on the region of the world it is found. It is a tree squirrel, of the squirrel family Sciuridae including over one hundred arboreal species native to all continents of the world other than Antarctica and Oceania. Tree squirrels live mostly in trees, apart from the flying squirrel. The best known genus is Sciurus, containing most of the bushy tailed squirrels which are found in Europe, North America, temperate Asia as well as central and south America.
The scientific classification for the Eastern Grey is:
KINGDOM: ANIMALIA PHYLUM: CHORDATA CLASS: MAMMALIA ORDER: RODENTIA FAMILY: SCIURIDAE GENUS: SCIURUS SUBGENUS: SCIURUS SPECIES: SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS
They were first noted by German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist - Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1788.
A mammal and rodent, predominantly herbivorous they are none the less an omnivore with a life span of between two and ten years. They can grow to 70cm in length and weigh up to 8kg. There are more than two hundred and sixty species of worldwide squirrel, the smallest being the African pygmy squirrel at just 10cm in length, whereas the Indian giant squirrel is three feet long! The oldest fossil of a squirrel, Hesperopetes, dates back to the late Eocene epoch period Chadronian period of 40-35 million years ago. The tree squirrels rotate their ankles by 180 degrees, so that the hind paws pointy backwards gripping tree bark which enables them to descend a tree headfirst.
Originally native to Eastern and Midwestern United States of America, they were first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1876 in Henbury Park, Macclesfield in Cheshire when Victorian banker Thomas V. Brocklehurst released a pair of Greys that he brought back from a business trip to America after their attraction as pets had waned. Victorians had a penchant for collecting exotic animals and birds of the world, but trends came and went and subsequently animals were simply discarded into the wilderness. There are early records of greys released near Denbighshire in north Wales from private collections. Later introduced to several regions in the UK, they quickly settled and spread, colonizing an area of three hundred miles in a quarter of a century between Argyll and Stirlingshire in Scotland.
Introductions of the Greys between 1902 and 1929 (the year of the last recorded introduction), included: Regent’s Park in London, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk and Hampshire. Grey Squirrels spread into Gloucestershire and eastern Wiltshire with animals coming directly from the United States or from Woburn. One hundred greys were released in Richmond Park in Surrey in 1902, Ninety one into Regent’s Park between 1905 and 1907 and a further ten New Jersey imported greys were introduced into Woburn Park in Bedfordshire.
Predators include hawks, weasels, raccoons, bobcats, foxes, domestic and feral cats, snakes, owls, and dogs, African harrier-hawks in Africa and... oh yes, Mankind pretty much everywhere who despise, mistreat, cull or eat it .
FACTS, MYTHS AND THAT POXY PARAPOX!
The massive decline in native red squirrels blamed upon the spread of the invasive greys has always been perhaps a little harsh as reds were already in a steep decline due to loss of habitat and disease and thus the greys simply took over the areas where the reds were dwindling. It's also a fact that reds were also seen as a plague, branded as pests who killed birds and damaged trees and the culling of reds almost brought them to the brink of extinction. Licenses to kill reds could still be obtained up until the seventies!
Reds suffered at the hands of mankind thanks to a combination of agricultural deforestation also linked with war and fuel needs which caused extinction in Southern Scotland and Ireland by the early eighteenth century, way before greys had been introduced. Harsh winters killed off the less hardy red population in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Greys are more adept at finding food and adapting to locations and environments, but also carry the squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) which although not particularly harmful to them, is a serious infection for the reds.
Parapox in red squirrels causes swollen lesions around the mouth, eyes, ears and nose also the front paws and sometimes genitals and skin ulcers and kills a red within fifteen days. There is no definitive correlation between the spread of the virus and the spread of the Greys, it actually arrived in several areas before the greys began to colonize there. An epidemic virus was observed in Red squirrels from at least 1900 with isolation attempts failing, and the first case of Parapox in the UK was in 1980 in the county of Norfolk. Greys cannot transmit the virus to reds via saliva or faeces, but reds can between each other from bodily secretions and at animal feeders in gardens. The transmission from greys to reds is though to come from parasites. Eight to ten per cent of reds survive the virus, and there is some evidence that reds are slowly building an evolved resistance.
Greys are seen as pests to forest land, stripping bark from trees during May and June, and are also capable of destroying household bins, water pipes, causing roof damage not to mention taking eggs and killing young chicks of ground nesting and songbird populations. They also take from bird feeders and there is a whole industry for creating squirrel proof feeders these days.
THE CULLING OF GREY SQUIRRELS
Grey squirrels have limited legal protection and can be legally controlled all year round by a variety of methods including shooting and trapping. Methods of trapping and killing include Dray poking and shooting, Tunnel trapping using spring traps set in accordance with BASC’s trapping pest mammals code of practice. They can also be shot using a shotgun or powerful air rifle or up until September 30th 2014 poisoned by Warfarin (Now outlawed).
Whilst professional trapping and extermination is hopefully done as humanely as possible, there have been cases, many of them where cost savings have been gained by battering the squirrels to death! Grey squirrels are trapped in ghastly metal contraptions for hours and hours, wearing themselves out frantically trying to escape by gnawing at the metals bars. They bite the floor and scratch at them with their claws and do not get a moments peace or rest through absolute fear. Once the traps are retrieved, each squirrel, terrified will be thrown into a sack and smacked on the head countless times with a blunt instrument. When a mother is slaughtered, her babies who are totally dependent on her, will die a slow death of thirst and starvation.
There is an argument for the control of Greys on many grounds but also a counter argument that Culling does not work, and has not on countless times where, once a population of greys have been culled, the nearest group will move back in and claim the land. The university of Bristol concluded that there was little evidence that culling greys to save red squirrels was effective, and that perhaps finding a way of boosting red squirrel immunity to the poxvirus or planting areas of yew trees where reds are known to thrive and spending money on research into positive moves might be a better option.
In Ireland, the re-introduction of the Pine marten, a species made extinct originally by the very same land owners who also wish to do the same to the grey squirrel, has seen the rapid demise of the grey and the re-introduction of the native reds. Red squirrels are smaller and more nimble than their grey counterparts, and as such can get to the very ends of tree branches where neither the pine martins, nor more importantly the heavier greys can, thus surviving and thriving. As a result in Ireland, the grey squirrel population has crashed in approximately 9,000 km2 of its former range and the reds has become common once more after a thirty year absence... oh and Pine Martens are protected again!
In Scotland, Pine Martens exist in areas where Red squirrels thrive, and greys do not. So perhaps there is a lesson here, as in England where there are no pine martens, the greys are prolific breeders. So there is an argument against the barbarity of shooting and poisoning greys, and if, as so many believe, the greys MUST be controlled, how about a more humane and natural method that nature intended.. with re-introduction of predators. Just a thought!
So a few facts and figures on the greys and to wrap up, from a purely personal perspective I love these little guys, as I do almost every creature in nature other than those eight legged beasties that shall not be named and for which I have a deep and powerful phobia that borders on paranoia!
I could no more harm an animal deliberately than eat a McDonald's McRib (Once saw how they are made and let me just say... eeeuuuuuwwwww!!).
They are small, cute, cuddly, furry, they photograph beautifully, have great personality and make me smile. They trust me enough to take food from my hand in parks, and I can't bare the though of ugly, hairy land owners sticking a shotgun in their face and blowing them away! I appreciate they can be a pest, a problem, a menace, that their PR managers might have a bit of a problem winning you over when they flay small chicks alive on your lawn or decimate the songbird population by stealing their eggs.... and perhaps there is a need to keep the population under control and try and re-establish the red population.....
Yep I get that....
I just hope we can solve the problem more humanely to create a peaceful coexistence of the reds and greys in different areas. A man can dream can't he.
Paul Williams June 18th 2021
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