SAC Conservation Society Auchincruive: Week 8

Welcome to the SAC Conservation Society (Auchincruive)

SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) is an innovative, knowledge-based organisation, supporting the development of land-based industries and communities.

The aim of this blog is to highlight some of the projects that the Conservation Society are involved with.

We hope that this blog will be of interest to both SAC students/staff and members of the public and may inspire you to go out and become involved with conservation projects in your local community. (See the links for ideas)

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Week 8 - Squirrel Surveys

Location: Auchincruive
Activity: Squirrel Surveys (Theory)

This week we had a talk from Lee Millar, Conservation Officer for the Ayrshire Red Squirrel Group.
Lee gave us a background to Squirrels in the United Kingdom (Both Red & Grey) and talked about the different survey methods that can be used to try and estimate squirrel numbers in a specific area. We talked about:
- Visual Transects
- Cone Transects
- Feeder / Hair Samples

Hopefully we will be able to get involved with doing some surveys in the near future.

For further information please visit Ayrshire Red Squirrel Group or Scottish Red Squirrel Survey

**All Red Squirrel Photographs © Jim Wilson Photography**