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  waahey!
More Beaver!
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 They've been hiding up Scotswomen's kilts no doubt 
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 First it's those grey squirrels coming here and eating all our nuts, now beavers! Send em all back! Only joking! I've never understood though, why some people are all for foreigners coming here and taking our jobs, but the same people want to kill grey squirrels for taking over from native reds. Maybe you don't care if it's not your nuts that are affected?
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 Well, dam!
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 Mike, I guess its cos the greys are killing our reds[1] presumably if the foreigners were killing us as well as eating our nuts, we too would complain, although I am sure there would be some do-gooder somewhere defending their rights to kill us. Seen a Red squirrel in a cemetery in the center of Dundee a few weeks back, great too see.
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The greys don't physically kill the Reds, Reiver. Basically, the greys are bigger and the reds can't compete for food, and are pushed out. A bit like being a Scottish brickie. I think Dundee is the only city left in Scotland to have a population of Reds.
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Yep, that was what my [1] was going to be for, a footnote. The greys (grays ?) kill of the reds by passing a pox virus that is deadly to the reds, and as you say the greys also out compete the reds for food.
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I wonder will the Beaver re-introduction be as sucessfull has the re-introduction of the English Middle Classes to the Highlands. The Beaver is one of nature's great cleaners, just like the English Middle Classes, who's introduction to highlands has certainly improved the appearance of homesteads up there, esp the gardens. Certainly don't have the normal 2 scrap car's and rotting boat in the front litter laiden overgrown garden! (which never is fenced, unless you call a broken pallet a fence.)
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BEAVER A 90 year old man is having his annual check-up. The doctor asks him how he is doing. "I've never been better!" he replies. "I have an 18 year old bride who is pregnant with my child! What do you think about that?" The doctor considers this for a moment and then says: "Well, let me tell you a story: I know a guy who is an avid hunter. He never misses a season. But one day, he is in a bit of a hurry and he accidentally grabs his umbrella instead of his gun. So, he walks in the woods near a creek and he spots a beaver in some brush in front of him. He raises up his umbrella, points it at the beaver and squeezes the handle. *BAM*, the beaver drops dead in front of him. "That's impossible!", says the old man in disbelief. "Someone else must have shot that beaver!" "Exactly!"
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 Only joking! I've never understood though, why some people are all for foreigners coming here and taking our jobs
I've thought of something else aside from the plumbing and fruit picking our E. European migrants can do for us better than we can manage ourselves: write and perform next year's Eurovision entry, and cream off those Eastern Bloc(k) votes! Pete.
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 The European beaver is different from the better-known American one. American beavers dam streams to build their homes, whereas European beavers tend to build theirs on the wooded banks of lakes. They still cut trees, though their activities tend not to cause flooding of marshes in the same way as happens in North America.
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 Beaver traps are going for $33 on ebay hurry whilst stock last CLick
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I thought that was illegal now! Protected species in many places and all! 
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