A baby squirrel consumes approximately 20 percent of it's own body weight in mother's milk in a 24 hour period. The orange colored stains you see on a squirrels front teeth are not from the foods it eats. The grey squirrel is not native to England. Grey squirrels were first introduced to England in 1776 by Ben Franklin and have managed to reach population levels that exceed the native red squirrel. Trees in England have also been affected by the grey squirrels stripping bark for food and nesting material.
Squirrels are very adept swimmers, crossing lakes and rivers with ease.
Ernest Thompson Seton, the man that helped start the Boy Scouts of America in 1910, was a squirrel aficianado who observed squirrels in the wild and wrote about them in his books. This name aptly describes the way the tail is held over the head. Grey squirrels have two birthing seasons a year, but each mother normally has only one litter per year. Average litter size is 3. There has been verified cases of 6 babys in a litter.