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   Reintroduction - Newborough Forest June 2007
 
A wild red squirrel caught in newborough forest June 2007
Wild red squirrel in trap		 A captive adult red squirrel in enclosure A within Newborough forest
Captive male squirrel 		An adult female red squirrel trapped near the release enclosures June 2007
Wild red squirrel in trap
A heavily pregnant captive red squirrel in enclosure C. This female shares the enclosure with another female and male.
Captive breeding female 		Captive red squirrel emerging from a nest box within enclosure C.
Captive squirrel 		A view down from the woodland canopy towards enclosure C.
Enclosure C
A captive squirrel with a large hazel nut in its mouth.
Captive squirrel 		Woodland surrounding the release enclosures.
Release site 		Two young red squirrels weaned within enclosure D during May 2007.
Captive young squirrels
A young hazel sapling growing near the release pens. These trees are the result of red squirrels caching hazel nuts that they have collected from supplemental feed hoppers nearby.
Hazel sapling 		A nest box located near two release enclosures.
Nest box 		An adult red squirrel within a wire handling cone for examination. The animal was released back into the wild soon afterwards.
Captured red squirrel
A captive male red squirrel in enclosure C.
Captive adult squirrel 		Young red squirrels in enclosure D
Young captive reds 		Adult female red squirrel in enclosure A
Captured red squirrel
Enclosure A - looking increasingly weather beaten.
Enclosure A 		Adult red squirrel in enclosure A
Captive red squirrel 		This is an image of one of our captive adult females peeping out from a nest box. Wild squirrels were found to have used 60% of the 30 boxes in the surrounding woodland.
Captive female squirrel
A grey squirrel skeleton in Newborough. In 2002 there were over five hundred grey squirrels in the forest, today there are, if any, only one or two animals remaining.
Grey squirrel skeleton 		Discarded food in enclosure A
Feeding captive reds 		This is an image of one of our captive adult females peeping out from a nest box. Wild squirrels were found to have used 60% of the 30 boxes in the surrounding woodland.
Captive squirrel
 
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The gallery above contains images from Newborough forest in June 2007. Images include those of captive breeding animals that are housed in the forest and also some wild animals, descendents of animals released in 2004 and 2005.
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