{"id":1411,"date":"2011-11-29T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T11:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2011-11-28T11:57:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T11:57:57","slug":"red-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/red-squirrels","title":{"rendered":"Red Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we&#8217;ve never made a secret of our love for <strong><em>Red Squirrels<\/em><\/strong>; we regularly take clients to see and\/or photograph them and\u00a0we have them as a garden visitor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-334\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birdwatching\/winter-walks\/attachment\/dsc_0157web\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-334\" title=\"Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) (c)Martin Kitching\/Northern Experience Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC_0157web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC_0157web.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DSC_0157web-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northumberland&#39;s iconic mammal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Red Squirrel <\/em><\/strong>conservation is a bit of a thorny issue though, particularly as control of <strong><em>Grey Squirrel <\/em><\/strong>numbers, especially in and around areas where Red Squirrels still have healthy populations, is an important part of it.<\/p>\n<p>I went last week to a meeting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernredsquirrels.co.uk\/main.html\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Red Squirrels<\/a>\u00a0(NRS) (I&#8217;m currently Chair of one of the NRS member organisations), and there was an excellent presentation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsne.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Squirrels Northern England<\/a>\u00a0(RSNE).\u00a0 It was refreshing to see a project which is realistic about the size of the task facing it, realistic about what it&#8217;s proposed outcomes should be and aware of the issues, and potential pitfalls,\u00a0that surround all of that.<\/p>\n<p>It was encouraging to see just how many local &#8216;Red Squirrel&#8217; groups there are, and good to see that they&#8217;re all communicating with one another.\u00a0 With good lines of communication between NRS and RSNE, the battle to conserve the <em><strong>Red Squirrel<\/strong><\/em> population of Northumberland and the other Northern England counties is one that can surely be won.<\/p>\n<p>Please, please, please&#8230;if you have any sightings of either <em><strong>Red\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>or<em><strong> Grey Squirrels<\/strong><\/em> in Northumberland, Cumbria, Merseyside, Lancashire, north-west Durham or the Yorkshire Dales, then submit them via the sightings page of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsne.org.uk\/node\/add\/squirrel-report\" target=\"_blank\">RSNE website<\/a>.\u00a0 A good evidence base makes it much more likely that conservation measures can be targeted appropriately and we&#8217;ll see a successful outcome to the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we&#8217;ve never made a secret of our love for Red Squirrels; we regularly take clients to see and\/or photograph them and\u00a0we have them as a garden visitor. 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