Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group have recently released Charles the red squirrel kitten back into the wild.
We first reported about this back in May after Charles was abandoned when his drey fell to the ground. Since the update in June, Charles has gone from strength to strength.
Volunteer leader of the PDRSG, Sarah McNeil
“I was a bit worried he had become tame and would not survive in the wild. But I spotted him last Friday just two days after his release and he was running and leaping around with six other red squirrels. Later on I saw him again munching on a larch cone!”
Charles is one of only 150,000 red squirrels left in Britain. He was released into the Scots Pine and Larch woodland on the 18,000 acre Lowther Estate in Cumbria.
Sarah: “I am so glad he’s acclimatised to the woodland. I was a bit worried he was tame because he used to scamper all over me. But we got him used to doing things for himself and it seems to have worked out.”
If you want to get involved with helping with Red Squirrel conservation in Cumbria, contact Sarah at the Penrith and District Red Squirrel Group. Or why not try the Allerdale Red Squirrels Group if they’re closer.
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