Missus and I are back from a 2 day conference (or "knowledge fair" as they call it) at Bangor university, hosted by Red Squirrels United.
Some very interesting work and developments going on for the future, to try and eradicate grey squirrels from the UK and conserve our native reds. We learnt a lot regards new methods of grey control, but it all hinges on the good old volunteers to hold the ground for the reds until new science can turn the tide in their favour. Or the cavalry in the form of pine martens come galloping to the rescue!

Much will hinge on the work being done to develop immunocontraception against greys, this is going well and looking very exciting but still realistically 5-10 years away before we have it developed, tested, licenced, manufactured and out in the field. In theory this could see the end of grey squirrels in the UK, but probably not in my lifetime .

Near home we have a trail camera on a feeder that has shown a red squirrel by day and a marten by night - bit of a double success .