Helen Butler MBE, from Wight Squirrel Project shares this latest news ahead of Red Squirrel Appreciation Day. Ed
If you appreciate our Isle of Wight red squirrels, please join the Twitterstorm on Saturday 21st January between 9am-11am.
Another very useful thing you can do is to log any red squirrels you have seen on the Isle of Wight via the App or online form or email [email protected]
Citizen science monitoring is the most important aspect of red squirrel work, so that means you.
Send in quarterly reports
For 20 years, people did report red squirrels in their garden by filling in an annual questionnaire.
To celebrate Red Squirrel Awareness Day, Wight Squirrel Project is launching a new initiative to encourage people to send in quarterly reports.
If you’re interested in joining the project to log quarterly accounts of your ‘garden’ squirrels please email the address above. Results are published in the newsletter and on the Website, without using your address of course.
Sightings down in 2022
Reporting sightings seen when you are out walking is important too. Squirrel sightings were down in 2022, with a drop of 30 per cent on the number of dead squirrels reported on the Isle of Wight.
Although it’s awful to say, the number of dead squirrels seen on the road is an indicator of how the population is doing.
Please help
Please report squirrels dead or alive via the Website, email or phone 01983 611003 and leave a message. I look forward to hearing from you.
Listen to Helen Butler talking on the Wight Wild Podcast about the Island’s red squirrels.
Image: © Helen Butler
