Habitat

The grey squirrel can be found can be found all over the uk from woodlands to our own back gardens and parks.

Distribution in the uk

Can be found throughout the british isles parts of Scotland in Wales and Northern Ireland except the Isle of Wight.

  Months seen

All year round but is less active in the winter.

Food eaten

Grey squirrels feed on acorns, tree shoots, flowers, nuts, fruits, roots and cereals.

Habits

 The grey squirrels that live countryside they seem to be more shy and harder to see like most uk mammals but the town they are more tame and will take food from your bird table and even our hands if a squirrel is used to people they live in nests built from twigs and lined inside with moss to keep the warm in the winter there homes are called a drey.Grey squirrels are distinguished from red squirrels by their grey fur, smaller ear tufts and their larger, more robust build. grey squirrels sit with their large bushy tail arched over the back. Grey squirrels bury surplus food 2-5cm below the soil or in tree hollows. They feed at ground level, more so than red squirrels, and together with their ability to digest acorns, (which reds can't), they have tended to displace red squirrels in areas of woodland where the two have come into contact.  A very adaptable species, the grey squirrel prefers mature broadleaved woodlands with a rich understory layer .

Tracking

 The grey squirrel leaves lots of signs of living in an area as they tend chew bark off trees and leave nuts with gnaw marks on them , depending on the size of the chew marks will show you which creature ate it. The best time to find there footprints and split nuts is in the Autumm and winter when the ground is damp also to see grey squirrels as the trees are leafless they can be spotted quite easily when moving through the trees.

Courtship

 Mating usually begins in January and the first of two litters are born in the drey usually in the spring when new buds are coming through so there is plenty of food to feed the growing young acrobats.

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 PhPhotographs taken by Dc images  ,Mike Mottram