…a good chat with the staff about the Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrel project. Then another TV presenter! This time it was Leah Boleto from BBC Newsround! And with all these new faces it’s great to bump into an old pal- aye it’s good old Bruce the Beaver! Nice to see him there to promote the wildlife of Argyll- including red… […]
Original Author: Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels This video formed part of Scottish Natural Heritage’s “Scotland’s Big 5” campaign, and provides a number of close up shots of red squirrels feeding…. […]
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…they were slow to visit the feeder boxes, seeming to prefer to keep exposure to the wet and cold to a minimum. As a result, some monitoring sites only registered the presence of squirrels in the last fortnight of the six-week surveys. Even so, for surveys in project areas north of the Central Belt, initial results suggest red squirrels are… […]
…Other big conifer trees are great too, especially Scots pine, although these species will need to be fully mature (and therefore BIG) before they produce seed and cones. Providing wild food is best for all wildlife but you can also provide supplementary food for squirrels. It is best to only provide food for squirrels where only red squirrels are present…. […]
…That way we can make comparisons from one year to the next. This survey should reflect the changing fortunes of reds and greys in any given area. There are a LOT of woodlands to survey, so it’s simplest to break the landscape down into 2km by 2km squares- we call these tetrads. Within each tetrad we place four feeder boxes… […]
…virus, which first came to the UK with the introduction of non*]}*-native grey squirrels. The grey squirrels that carry squirrelpox display no symptoms, having long developed immunity to the disease. Unfortunately, red squirrel populations have not had a chance to develop widespread immunity, and in most cases the disease is fatal within a couple of weeks. At the moment, squirrelpox… […]
