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Or a black bodied yellow bird?
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I remember seeing a story in Readers' Digest about fifty years ago, that said the red squirrels
were going to drive gray squirrels to extinction. How? By gnashing their knockers off, biting
their gonads off, gelding them, deprivi;ng them of any posterity.. But it never happened. I wonder
why. I never saw a gray squirrel wearing a tin jock.
Edit: From the Internet. I can hardly believe it, the Readers' Digest printed a lie!
"The breeding season for red squirrels begins in late winter, with 3-6 young born in April, May or June after a 40-day
gestation period. Reds have strong territorial instincts, often defending food sources and den
trees against intrusion. The story that red squirrels castrate gray squirrels is untrue, although reds will aggressively drive off trespassing grays. "
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you can't fool an OPP (olde prairie person); that's a yellow-headed blackbird!
-ron obviousDat's right...but then it can't be a blackbird...it would have to be a yellow-and-black bird, wouldn't it?  -W'ON not-so-obvious
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Here in the UK, grey squirrels are blamed for driving off the red squirrels, which is why we hardly see any red squirrels anymore. Though apparently, due to a difference in their feeding habits, the two types of squirrel shouldn't really affect one another as the red squirrels spend most of their time in the trees, with quite a specialised diet and the grey squirrels will eat anything.
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I'd call it a raspberry finch.
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Oh, bonzai, what remarkable photos! The albino squirrel looked as though it had fallen into a flour bag--and the white blackbird? Whudda thunk?
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