Buy an air-rifle.

Walt, I would love to have back the starlings - please send them over!

Gordon , Stansfield, Suffolk

squirrel+air rifle=no more problems and on the plus side they taste good to

marc, seal beach,

I think there should be some sort of cull - I've studied at 2 North American Universities and grey squirrels are EVERYWHERE! They get into your room, regardless of the floor, eat everything, try and bury bits of food in your laptop and are generally as big a problem as rats... only protected!

Katherine, Toronto, Canada

Most of the ecological problems we have today is caused my humnas interferring and trying to control everything. So perhaps it would be better to for leave other animals be instead of resorting to the only "solution" you eating machines seem to know: killing.
Or i'll suggest "croque-le-monsieur".

Charlotte, Exeter, UK

We have a squirrel equally as cunning that plunders our bird-feeders.

Rather than getting cross, we just learned to laugh and enjoy his antics - and buy extra bird food.

No stress, no fuss, just a little more expense and a lot more pleasure from our garden. I'd recommend it.

HurstLlama, Sussex, England

Grey squirrels are not our natural wildlife. My god you lot are a moany bunch. "OOoooh, How would you like it?" - I'll be honest being trussed up, roasted and eaten sounds fairly humane when compared to listening to you clowns moaning.

Nick, Thetford,

I have a very handy Kerry Blue Terrier who both runs faster than squirrels and has much bigger teeth.

The invaders have been repulsed in our garden.


He's available for rental, Matthew.

Rod, Birmingham,

Our local petshop in Wimbledon sells a grey squirrel feeder so you can bribe the ferals to leave the bird feeder alone. You Brits are into appeasement across the entire animal kingdom.

Jon, London, UK

I ate squirrel in a good restaurant near Tower Bridge last week.

At home I am dealing with the squirrel problem by catching them with a live-trap and driving them up to Wimbledon Common for release.
Now my garden is free of them, and they are having more fun in the woods than in my garden.

Steve Hughes, London, UK

Everything you wanted to know about Grey Squrells.'
http://www.unexco.com/SQ1.html

We'll make you Brits a deal. You give us back all the Grey Squrelles we gave you and we will return all the Starlings you so graciously gave us.

Walt, St. Louis, USA

Answer: start feeding the squirrels; stop feeding the birds. The squirrels are obviously hungry.

chris littler, sheffield,

I've always admired their dexterity!
Can't we get one to run for prime minister?

Just kidding btw, we could never have a creature that falls asleep for the entire winter, losing touch with its electorate.

Chris, London,

Do you think that hanging the recipes on the bird feeder stand would dissuade them? The dogs certainly don't

M. Cawdery, Portadown, Co. UK, EU

Grey squirrels are a bit tough at this time of year because they have just come out of hibernation. They are better in August/September. I had one on Monday. It should have been cooked for quite a bit longer. We will know better next time.

ian, marlborough,

Squirrel. Rabbit. Pigeon. Muntjack deer. Chinese crabs. All of these are pests and edible and unwanted imports (apart from indigenous pigeons).
We should be eating these rather than airfreighted imports. Bunnyburgers and squiirel twizzlers, anyone?

Dave, Slough,

"Leave them in peace and do not destroy our natural wildlife, let nature take its course"

Sorry to drag you from your high horse but the grey squirrel is an invader species which has and continues to displace the indiginous red squirrel. Death to the greys!!! Bon apetit!

John, London,

Seems a little heavy on the salt Matthew.

Douglas Miller, Fulham,

oh you are such a nuisance, lets cut you lengthways into halves and then roast you !!

Now you know how the squirrel feels!! Leave them in peace and do not destroy our natural wildlife, let nature take its course

Haidée, London, UK

I keep on watching my butchers for squirrels. I understand that they are available regularly in some parts of the country, but not around Yorkshire to my knowledge. I'll bet on one thing though; if they were to become a popular dish, before long they will be designated an 'endangered species'!

S. Barraclough, Huddersfield, W. Yorkshire

1. Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and U.S. presidential candidate, reports that as an impoverished student he hunted squirrels which he and friends then fried in a popcorn popper in their dormitory room. 2. A birdfeeder exists that feeds birds but rotates to fling off squirrels.

Sarah B. Forman, Chevy Chase, USA, Maryland

Roast Squirrel on Dripping toast from Fergus Henderson. It is in his second cookbook, "More Nose to Tail cooking". Have also eaten it at St John Bread and Wine in Shoreditch . Terrific dish!

Introduced grey squirrels mind. I think you just have to grin an bear the antics of the natives.

Brian Waldron, Sydney, Australia

Don't suppose you have a recipe for badgers do you?

Glyn H, Devon,

They are just trying to survive - they are not eating you, and humans destroyed far more species than squirrels, so really I think you need to get a life: squirrels have got 75% mortality rate in their first year of life, cut them some slack!

Alex, Birmingham,

Good luck, brave and cunning squirrel! May your final battle be glorious and your meat tasty! ;-)

Michael, Pueblo, Colorado, US