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Britain's Red Squirrels

Amidst our woods they lived quite free most beautiful for all to see, collecting nuts their only need to help provide a winter's feed. But now their falling numbers prove the threat to woodland and their food as roads and buildings rob their land and nature takes a crueller hand. A cousin grey, who's not so shy, now steals their dwindling food supply and fighting fiercely for their home gives our red friends no place to roam. Less we provide them room to play extinction is the price they'll pay. Ivor G Davies

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 2/17/2016 3:10:00 PM
What a beautiful, and moving piece, very well written. "A cousin grey, who's not so shy, now steals their dwindling food supply" is just a first-rate couplet.
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Ivor Davies
Date: 2/18/2016 5:13:00 PM
I suppose it is survival of the strongest but a shame to see them dwindling.... Thanks for reading... Ivor

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