Spent an hour or so cutting back some wisteria which had gone wild in a tree.
Later decided to use the garden shredder and found some old waste in the basket along with a nest.
Hoping this is due to the squirrel that has been seen on the bird feeder/bird table for some weeks and not a rat’s nest.
Droppings:
Roll on the fun and games cleaning this out.
They are both vermin and should be treated as such.
Sure, I was just trying to figure out which it was - both can carry pretty unpleasant diseases/parasites and be destructive inside. Probably fortunate it wasn’t in the shredder box when I removed it.
I’d actually left the electric shredder outside over winter covered with a long BBQ cover which kept it quite dry - it was getting a lot of use last year and due to it’s awkward shape/weight I got fed up hauling it up/down a steep step near the garage.
Squirrels are essentially rats with furrier tails. Both are ubiquitous, destructive to home properties, and carry bacterial and viral diseases as well as parasites. Still hoping it’s a squirrel? That’s like hoping it’s a dove instead of a pigeon.
BTW - squirrels are much easier to eliminate (tube trap and peanut butter). Rats are clever.
Was simply hoping to identify.
We know there’s a squirrel around as we see it. There have been more rats around locally in recent years but not seen any for ages.
I’d still rather this was an opportunistic squirrel than a rat.
A Squirrel is just a Rat with good PR.
DG…
Nice joke, but totally incorrect zoologically speaking of course.
Same order, different family, phylogenetically speaking of course.
