01-02-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com

These squirrels are not native. So what?

Wenlock Edge This sycamore isn’t native either, and neither are the people who planted them, or who look at them now The squirrels look as though they make everyday life into a game; they have the kind of mischievous intelligence once attributed by folklore to hidden, supernatural creatures such as fairies, elves, goblins and the like. These grey and ginger squirrels are tricky. To some people they are a delight to watch; to others they are an anathema, interlopers blamed for the demise of
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