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Animals on the road....

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  • #32
    topper75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    You come across as such a lovely calm man bursting with joy in all your posts.

    The joy of invasive species? Explain that please.


  • #33
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,513 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    topper75 wrote: »
    The joy of invasive species? Explain that please.

    Do you really think they're ever going anywhere and reds are coming back? Should we get rid of rabbits too, another invasive species? Or the armies of domestic cats decimating our bird population? Or the idiot pet dogs let run around with no leads who scared to death all the hares on bull island over the years? We've hardly any wildlife as is and it's disappearing rapidly.
    Seeing a squirrel freaking out in smoky traffic and running under a moving Transit Van isn't something I enjoyed, that's all, I wasn't starting a debate on invasive species.


  • #34
    Seth Brundle
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Do you really think they're ever going anywhere and reds are coming back? They've a different hairdo, so what.
    The decline of one species will always impact other species.
    As it turns out, there is a relationship between Red squirrels and Pine Martens - the increasing presence of PMs is resulting in a decline in grey Squirrels which allows the natural increase in the Red's population...

    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/squirrel-pine-marten/
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/good-neighbours-how-pine-martens-are-helping-red-squirrels-survive-1.3822153

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  • #35
    Thelonious Monk
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    The decline of one species will always impact other species.
    As it turns out, there is a relationship between Red squirrels and Pine Martens - the increasing presence of PMs is resulting in a decline in grey Squirrels which allows the natural increase in the Red's population..

    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/squirrel-pine-marten/
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/good-neighbours-how-pine-martens-are-helping-red-squirrels-survive-1.3822153

    I've never seen a pine marten in the wild but I had read their numbers are increasing alright

    This is interesting, we're still doing ok compared to England RE reds. When I was a kid I remember you'd see them regularly in St Anne's Park in Dublin. It's all Longford's fault apparently.

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  • #36
    dodderangler
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    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    The decline of one species will always impact other species.
    As it turns out, there is a relationship between Red squirrels and Pine Martens - the increasing presence of PMs is resulting in a decline in grey Squirrels which allows the natural increase in the Red's population...

    https://www.irelandswildlife.com/squirrel-pine-marten/
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/good-neighbours-how-pine-martens-are-helping-red-squirrels-survive-1.3822153

    I wa bout to reply the same. Reds have been seen on foothills of carrigtoohil. Pine martins increasing is also leading to a decline in other animals aswell such as grouse but the cats and foxes re more at fault with them declining. Even hunters don’t bother shooting them anymore because they’re in enough trouble so foxes are being targeted. I’ve taken my fair share of foxes over the years and they don’t seem to be in decline at all. More and more show up. Less and less animals about.
    Also our buzzard has a taste for squirrel now aswell so they’re helping to rid ourselves of the greys. But it’ll be a long long time before we start seeing a decline of them. I seen my first this year outside my garden in a estate in Tallaght. No woods or forests nearby


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  • #37
    SEPT 23 1989
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    they are throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness


  • #38
    whisky_galore
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    A friend of mine from the UK couldn't get over the amount of roadkill here, esp carcasses of big things like foxes and badgers left to rot on the roadside.


  • #39
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    dodderangler wrote: »
    There are no reds in merrion square!. Only grey squirrels hence why I said I hope it didn’t make it.
    Mate I’m well aware of where reds are in Ireland. You’re giving me a history lesson that I am well aware of!

    *adds to database of Boards expertise
    *files under squirrels


  • #40
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    *adds to database of Boards expertise
    *files under squirrels
    How about a squirrel database https://cybersquirrel1.com/ ?


  • #41
    FishOnABike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,364 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


    dodderangler wrote: »
    There are no reds in merrion square!. Only grey squirrels hence why I said I hope it didn’t make it.
    Mate I’m well aware of where reds are in Ireland. You’re giving me a history lesson that I am well aware of!

    Fair enough, you're more familiar with Merrion Square than I am - I guess I should have known from the name 'dodderangler'.


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  • #42
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Feisar wrote: »
    Don't swerve, you could plough into a beech tree. Always pick the softest recipient.

    I came around a bend one time to see a car coming at me over taking a tractor. Options:

    Walkers with bushy trees was an unknown
    Take the hit with the car
    Take the hit with a tractor
    Attempt to ditch her the far side of the tractor

    What dio you do ?


  • #43
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,616 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    i remember years ago a colleague of mine wrote off his dads brand new jeep, he said he swerved to avoid a hedgehog but the reality was he was very drunk at the time, the stupid idiot did the same thing a year later.


  • #44
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Funnily enough after my rugby match I dropped my mate home and car in front jammed on breaks to avoid a hedgehog. I stopped and got out and picked him up and put him 100 yards away from the road in a field.


  • #45
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    dodderangler wrote: »
    Funnily enough after my rugby match I dropped my mate home and car in front jammed on breaks to avoid a hedgehog. I stopped and got out and picked him up and put him 100 yards away from the road in a field.

    ...who did you put in the field, you mate, the person in the other car or the hedgehog?


  • #46
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    A friend of mine from the UK couldn't get over the amount of roadkill here, esp carcasses of big things like foxes and badgers left to rot on the roadside.

    I drive in the UK often enough and I've never seen as much roadkill anywhere as there. The dual carriages are littered with carcasses.


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