Up the reds!

Did you know that if you see a grey squirrel on your land and do not report it, you are breaking the law? Well, at least you are for the next few weeks until the government get round to repealing the law which makes this so.  It was a law originally designed to protect the native red squirrel which was at risk from the foreign grey interlopers, but it seems the battle has been given up as lost, and so there's no point in the law any more.  The reds are now confined to the North and Scotland, where they seem to be doing OK, thank goodness.