Discover Cumbria

Cumbria is now the proud home of an innovative project to help protect the red squirrel from extinction. Whinlatter Forest near Keswick now has a red squirrel reserve which is now open to the public. Visiors can walk along a trail through the Red Squirrel Reserve and learn about the animals with displays indoors.

The forestry commission has a webcam during the Autum showing images of the Red Squirrels nest. Images from the webcam can be seen at the Whinlatter visitors centre.

So the Osprey have outwitted technology by moving to a new nest. Apparently this is uncharacteristic of Osprey and it may take a while to re-site the webcam to the new nest. Care must be taken to not disturb the birds in their new location. We have added some links so you can see some archive images before the birds moved.

The Save Our Squirrels web site is asking the public to report sightings of the endangered Red Squirrel. Since there are actually quite a few pockets of Red Squirrels in Cumbria, protected mainly by the topography of the mountains, perhaps visitors and locals together could contribute to their campaign by reporting any Red Squirrel sightings in Cumbria.