Deb Beutler wrote:

> We deal with logging and its effects on native vertebrates in
> northeastern Washington. In one of our projects, we used artificial nests
> filled with Japanese Quail eggs to try to assess the amount of predation on
> nests in forests of different ages. The native gray squirrels were the most
> common predators of eggs in our study.

In northeastern Washington you must be referring to Red Squirrels??? If
there are Gray Squirrels in northeastern Washington, I expect they are
the introduced Eastern Gray Squirrel.

Kelly McAllister