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Happy New Year to everyone from the Squirrelweb Team.

Squirrels in eastern Russia have apparently turned nasty and killed a dog in the centre of a park in a village called Lazo in eastern Russia. This has been attributed to a failure of the cone crops – see the full story posted on BBC News World Edition on 1st December 2005 at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm. Also […]

Apparently, squirrels in London have become addicted to Class A drugs – see the article, South London squirrels after different kind of stash from The Guardian newspaper on 8th October 2005 www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1587694,00.html .

In the recently released film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the book by Roald Dahl, real, rather than virtual, squirrels had to be trained to crack nuts to order for one particular scene – see news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4702653.stm for further information. Cracking good stuff! We are also reliably infomed that the film is very good.

It was with great sadness to learn that Italo Currado passed away on Tuesday 26th July 2005; he was 69 years old. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. See Italo Currado 1936-2005.

On 1st January 2005, Maria Salmon wrote to say that she has a problem with a grey squirrel who is stealing pebbles, about the size of a walnut, from her garden, and she wondered if anyone had heard of or seen this unusual behaviour, and why the squirrel was doing it? Maria would also like […]

The SquirrelWeb team will soon post all sightings of squirrels sent in on a new webpage in SquirrelWeb. Thus, all sightings of red squirrels, unusual colour morphs, or other squirrel observations, will be welcome.

JNCC and PTES are funding a new red squirrel monitoring study to start in January 2005 and will continue for 2 years. The aim is to produce recommendations and costings for an effective red squirrel surveillance scheme in the UK. The study will be carried out by Robbie McDonald (Quercus, School of Biology and Biochemistry, […]

The SquirrelWeb Team would like to wish all our readers a happy festive season and a prosperous New Year.

Simon Bell from the Natural History Unit, BBC, Bristol has confirmed that a new programme about squirrels in the Wildlife on One Series will be broadcast on Thursday 11th November – it is called SQUIRRELS – Are They Tough Enough?