Original Author: Steve Willis A guest blog from Rosy of Deeside Knitwits. Rosy and the Knitwits have recently made some truly amazing knitted red squirrels which they have gifted to SSRS. Here’s a bit of background into what they do and how it all started! And if you didn’t know what ‘knitadermy’ was, you soon will! […]
Category: Volunteering
The Spring Survey
Original Author: Steve Willis, Project Officer Northeast Scotland You may have seen reference to our annual spring survey. Find out more about what’s involved, and how the Project Officers go through all the results. Throughout March and April each year SSRS engages in a massive survey of red and grey squirrels across all the […]
Fed Up With Feederboxes? No Way!
Original Author: Lorna Hutchison Lorna Hutchison, Volunteer Project Assistant for Argyll and the Trossachs, tells us about her role in this season’s squirrel monitoring. My role as a volunteer for SSRS is pretty varied. One of the tasks involves me taking four kilograms of peanuts to Glengoyne and Loch Lubnaig once every two weeks and distributing […]