Original Author: Steve Willis The big focus for the SSRS team now is the annual spring survey. So the festivities of Christmas and the New Year are behind us now and it’s back to the grind stone for the team at SSRS. Grey squirrel control is underway in most areas and a key task […]
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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 […]
Get the big picture – summer survey results 2013
Original Author: Dr Mel Tonkin, Project Manager A huge volunteer effort is helping Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels get an accurate picture of red and grey squirrel distribution in Scotland. Despite the exceptionally cold, wet winter and late spring this year, our squirrel presence/absence surveys began as usual in March. We know squirrels must […]