noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ground squirrel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
grey
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In the woodland or amongst the ivy, grey squirrels are often found.
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Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals.
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Since grey squirrels are bigger than red squirrels, many of the male reds have stopped reproducing.
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There was a grey squirrel nipping up and down a hazel tree near the stream.
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The study claims that red squirrels have survived alongside grey squirrels for decades in forests in Norfolk and Staffordshire.
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A grey squirrel , spry after its winter sleep, startled Ben by scampering across his path.
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And Sophia said she had a grey squirrel fur coat too.
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However, in some situations, grey squirrels seem to rely on spatial memory to retrieve nuts.
red
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Since grey squirrels are bigger than red squirrels, many of the male reds have stopped reproducing.
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A red squirrel was another early riser.
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I often see foxes, roe deer and red squirrels in the conifer plantation there.
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There is wildlife here in abundance; deer, wild cats, red squirrels , golden eagles, ospreys and reindeer.
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Last year I had seen, just like yesterday, a red squirrel behaving very curiously.
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The study claims that red squirrels have survived alongside grey squirrels for decades in forests in Norfolk and Staffordshire.
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Could it have been planted by a red squirrel ?
■ NOUN
ground
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The ground squirrel is another mammal that has adopted the practice of throwing things - primarily at its main predators, snakes.
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The ramparts are also popular among gophers and ground squirrels , whose Byzantine burrows are often a key culprit in levee breaks.
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California ground squirrels will even start throwing sand at the mere sound of a rattlesnake.
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I remember Grandma telling us to go hunt for some ground squirrels or anything eatable for meat.
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Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels .
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Woodchucks, like many other ground squirrels , hibernate in their underground burrows where they are thought to sleep away the winter.
■ VERB
see
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It will be fun to come back in a month or two, to see which apples the squirrel has retrieved.
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I see fresh red squirrel and hare tracks, but curiously none at all of weasel.
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Close by are woods where, so we were told, there would be a chance of seeing red squirrels .
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On the way down I see a red squirrel sitting hunched up and immobile, on a maple tree.
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The ash seeds will probably again attract finch flocks, but I have not seen the squirrels feeding on them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it seems to me that the principle that red squirrels make food, essentially out of nothing, is magic.
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I eventually concluded, however, that the red squirrels were harvesting maple syrup, much as we do.
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I felt grand and we chattered like little squirrels who have saved all the acorns for winter.
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Like the squirrel , he should marry only some one of precisely the same blood lines as himself.
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She stood, laughing at him, her arms brown against her childish white vest, the squirrel peering round her neck.
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The study claims that red squirrels have survived alongside grey squirrels for decades in forests in Norfolk and Staffordshire.
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Wire netting is the best defence against rabbits and squirrels, which will chew through plastic netting to plunder fruit crops.
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Woodchucks, like many other ground squirrels, hibernate in their underground burrows where they are thought to sleep away the winter.