Have you ever seen a red squirrel?

[Curlewwoohoo]

Please tell me where! I've been to the Isle of Wight and looked in all the places I was told about, no luck. Same to a place in Scotland they apparently live in the garden, nowt. Please help me see one!

Whifell Forest Centre Parcs 100%. Take a bag of Ark red squirrel food.

The greys haven't gone west of the Shannon in Ireland. I have reds in the garden of my holiday house (also pine martens who as a pp mentioned are thought to pick off any greys quite easily). Red squirrels are very shy and cautious though so even though they are in my garden they generally stay up high in the trees as much as possible and I only catch occasional glimpses.

When I was a child all this was fields there were only reds in Dublin too, but that was a long time ago. Now there are loads of greys where I live.

Centre Parcs whinfell forest!

Isle of Wight several times, running across a road, also at Ventnor Botanic Gardens and the best views from a hide in the grounds of Quarr Abbey

Kinoull Hill, Perthshire.

Yes!
formby squirrel reserve
around Aviemore and Carrbridge
a caravan site just outside Dunoon

@stripybluesocks no, would like to. Seen a white one though 🤍

Nope. Even walked around Brown sea Island for a day hoping to see one...nothing.

Was just saying to DH today, that it's weird that so many new kids books still feature red squirrels when most children will never ever see one.

Yes, lots but I live where they do!

They're pretty shy, much shyer than greys so you just need to be patient and watchful.

France.
Also sanglier and their babies in the fields and lanes

My family get them in the garden (Anglesey)

Berlin 🤣

Yes. I saw a squashed one in the road and one on our decking in center parcs - Penrith.

Yes, there were loads in a cemetery in Germany. I got very excited as it's the only time I've seen them.

Yes in a small town park outside Paris. It must have been a rare sighting as loads of people stopped and watched.

Lol I've been here 3 times and still never seen one!

I’ve seen one in France. Never in this country.

Center parcs whinfell forest

Just last week 😀

Daughters old school in very rural Perthshire has loads. Sign at the entrance says “slow down, red squirrels” to make all drivers take extra care.

Reds at Formby and in the Lakes.

Black in Cambridge. Blacks are mutant greys not a different species I think.

We have them in lower Normandy too.

Yes at Center Parcs Whinfell

Cumbria. Centerparcs at Whinfell is riddled with them

Come to Jersey for a few days and spend some time along the 'railway walk' or around the Zoo and I'd be surprised if you don't see one. They're regulars at our Parkrun

We don't have any greys here, so the reds run riot.