red squirrels?
destructive creatures.
now chipmunks? that is a rodent I can like!
The Western red squirrels we have around here are native. The Eastern gray squirrels are invasive. The Gray squirrels are far more docile and they will take nuts out of your hand. The red squirrels are half the size, but twice as fast and aggressive and will chatter at you any time you enter what they consider to be their domain. I had the garage door open the other day. A red squirrel ran in and it took awhile to chase him out. He ran directly into the open door of our airplane hangar.
The red squirrel in the UK is a different species from the US red squirrel, JFTR.
There are lots of feral grey squirrels around Britain as well.
At a park where I play softball, there are squirrels all over the place. We get a kick out of watching the small red squirrels chasing the bigger fox squirrels all over the place........