Saving baby red squirrels

Some time ago we had made a small post about the time we rescued three baby red squirrels.

Since then we have quite a few requests for more pictures. Well we can do that ...but we can also show a short video.

First a brief reminder of what happened.

We were walking in the woods near the river Gelt and came across 4 baby squirrels which had, so it seemed, fallen from their dray.One was dead but the other 3 were just stunned. So we put them in our pockets and took them to a friendly neighbour who is great with animals.

He built the cage below and fed them on bananas. Unfortunately one sickened and died but the other two , with help of some antibiotics from the vet lived and grew to be healthy beautiful red squirrels.Below the video there are more pictures

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So next time you travel up to Northumberland spare a thought for these beautiful squirrels.

Red Squirrels in Northumberland

We were delighted to see this website list the best places to see Red Squirrels.
Initially it reminded us of these 2 baby squirrels which had fallen out of their dray, they were hand reared successfully.

Anyway....

We looked through our holiday houses and sure enough we have some near each one of these squirrel locations.








Kielder forest is reported to have over 2/3rds of all the English Red Squirrels. We have Drovers Rest and Townfoot cottage both very close by.

Rothbury and Cragside are a great area for Red Squirrels. We have many properties around this area.

The Killhope lead mining museum has a squirrel hide. Close by we have Hillside cottage.

Belsay Hall and Gardens are an idyllic spot. Why not stay at Lake cottage?

Slaley hall is a less obvious choice of Squirrels but again we have Hilltop barn within a couple of miles.





Hope that this is useful but if you need any more advice on the best places to see Squirrels in Northumberland why not give us a call?