red squirrels and chipmunks

[frozenice7885]

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[mike]

I doubt they really appreciate being relocated to the city especially just to appease your wants. Maybe they had a family that's wondering where they are now.

[Pat Hodgson]

Red squirrels and chipmunks are present in Mt. Pleasant cemetery.  We have had chipmunks daily in our back yard (which adjoins cemetery) for several months at a time, then go more months without them.  Too many cats loose, I think.

Your amateur wildlife relocation efforts, though likely based on admirable goals, are at best ill-advised, and at worse cruel and illegal.

[Tyler]

I have several Red Squirrels and Eastern Chipmunks living in my backyard in Oshawa. Have seen several in Scarborough at Highland Creek and Rouge Valley.

As for you reintroduction program. 1) it is illegal,
 2) ecologically ill advised if the habitat was good for them they would been there all this time. They are tough rodents, the local avian community probably will thank you for putting new species of nest predators into that ravine.
3) morally you probably condemmed those individual you moved to death.

[Axeman]

Unfortunately, the gray squirrel outcompetes the reds...so it is unlikely that you'd be able to establish a population in southern ON in any event...I think enough people have commented re: the wisdom of transplanting them, so I won't.

I love reds too...and enjoy them at my feeders...however a few years ago, a single black phased gray  made its way to our corner of the wilderness in grey county...and then another...and now I've seen as many as 4...my concern is that I know in the UK they have outcompeted reds almost to exclusion and I fear my little reds will disappear too in time....sigh....