but we realised that this is a gift, we will keep all of this because it all still works, all the comic beats are there and that was the real revelation for us. wildlife experts in scotland are hopeful that progress is being made, in efforts to save the native red squirrel from extinction. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there s not many places in scotland where you d find that level. so what makes this the ideal habitat for the red squirrel? principally it s the age of the trees, that they are now producing cones regularly and that enables food to be available at different
to do, and what we realised when we read the original play was that structure is absolutely watertight. it is a gold plated structure and we really didn t change. we were given licence to change whatever we wanted but we realised that this is a gift, we will keep all of this because it all still works, all the comic beats are there and that was the real revelation for us. wildlife experts in scotland are hopeful that progress is being made, in efforts to save the native red squirrel from extinction. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there s not many places in scotland where you d find that level.
fatal for red squirrels. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there s not many places in scotland where you d find that level. so what makes this the ideal habitat for the red squirrel? principally it s the age of the treesm that they are now producing cones regularly and that enables food to be available at different times of the year. the larch produces cones in the summertime, the scots pine in the winter, so it gives the squirrels a good wide feeding pattern. but of course, they are in competition with the grey squirrels. wherever you get the grey squirrels, the reds are going to
are hopeful that progress is being made in efforts to save the native red squirrel from extinction. grey squirrels have been better able to adapt to changing habitats over the years and they carry a virus that s fatal for red squirrels. alexandra mackenzie has that story. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there s not many places in scotland where you d find that level. so what makes this the ideal habitat for the red squirrel? principally it s the age of the trees. that they are now producing cones regularly and that enables food to be available at different times of the year. the larch produces cones in the summertime, the scots pine in the winter, so it gives the squirrels a good wide feeding pattern.
experts in scotland are hopeful that progress is being made in efforts to save the native red squirrel. alexandra mackenzie reports. the native red squirrel. not a common sight in the uk, but now limited to areas like here in barhill wood in dumfries & galloway. how many red squirrels would you have in this wood? in november last year we had over 30, which is an exceptional amount. you know, there s not many places in scotland where you d find that level. so what makes this the ideal habitat for the red squirrel? principally, it s the age of the trees that they are now producing cones regularly and that enables food to be available at different times of the year. the larch produces cones in the summertime, the scots pine in the winter, so it gives the squirrels a good