All About squirrels
What Brownsea Island Teaches Us About Red Squirrels
If you want to see what a red squirrel paradise looks like when nobody interferes, look no further than Brownsea Island — where one stubborn woman’s 34-year refusal to tidy up gave squirrels the woodland they needed. Here’s what her story can teach your own garden.
UK Red Squirrels: Autumn Adventures
Ginger Gluttons: The Harvest Hustlers of British Woodlands As the leaves start to turn and pumpkin spice everything hits the shelves, our flame-furred friends, the red squirrels of the Isle of Wight (and other parts of the UK), kick into overdrive. These pint-sized...
Red Squirrels 3 to 6 months
The Crucial Transition: Red Squirrels from Three to Six Months The period from three to six months of age marks a critical transition in the life of a red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). Having survived the vulnerable early stages of life, young red squirrels now face...
The First Three Months of a Baby Red Squirrel’s Life: An In-Depth Look
The red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is an agile rodent found primarily in Eurasian forests. Red squirrels are known for their vibrant reddish-brown fur and bushy tails, they are a subject of interest for ecologists and nature enthusiasts alike. Here we will explore...
Dead Red Squirrels!
Firstly a big thank you to Tanya Rock for these lovely photographs 🙏 Secondly we seem to be receiving a fair few dead red squirrel reports at the moment. These are primarily traffic victims. We would like to remind the good people of the Isle of Wight to be...
How to help our red squirrels and where did those greys come from in the first place?
As the UK's only native squirrel species, it is sad to note that the red squirrel (Sciurus Vulgaris) is classified as endangered in England and Wales. With the UK red squirrel population falling over the years, from approximately 3.5 million to just a few hundred...
30 Incredible Years With The Red Squirrels!
In 2022 Helen Butler Mbe published not one but two fabulous new books! The first of these publications is the substantial tome that that documents 30 years of red squirrel conservation on the Isle of Wight. You are able to access a free pdf copy of this...
Squirrel Food & Eat Like a Squirrel eBook
So, we all know that red squirrels love nuts but did you know that they enjoy a far more varied diet than that. Like humans one squirrel's favourite food is another squirrels least favourite but thanks to years of observation and study we know a lot about the various...
Do you love to talk about red squirrels?
Do you love red squirrels? Do you love to talk about them? Would you like to learn more about them and then share that with others? We are urgently seeking volunteers to deliver our red squirrel talk to schools and local groups here on The Isle of Wight. This...
Distribution of Red and Grey Squirrels
WorldwideRed squirrels are found across a broad band of territory running from the seaboard of Western Europe and Scandinavia through the former USSR and Mongolia to North East China. Unfortunately, grey squirrels were introduced into Italy and again the reds have...
The History of Red Squirrels on the Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is fortunate in having the Solent as a barrier to direct grey squirrel invasion. However our squirrels have not been spared the landscape changes that also affect the rest of the country.