The Secret Life of The Red Squirrel - Full Documentary

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The Secret Life of The Red Squirrel

Living in the middle of the forest I was able to watch wild Red Squirrels as they moved through their home range. This documentary film follows them for a year on their journey and details some of the things they get up to along the way.

00:00 - Title/Preview
00:54 - Red Squirrel Introduction
01:33 - Red Squirrel Feeding
02:40 - Mushroom Bloom
05:00 - Red Squirrel Steals my GoPro
06:03 - Red Squirrel Feeding Signs
06:46 - Identifying Which Animal Ate the Pine Cone
06:50 - Wood mice and Vole Pine Cone Remains
06:57 - Woodpecker Pine Cone Remains
07:04 - Red Squirrel Pine Cone Remains
07:11 - Left or Right Handed Red Squirrels
07:23 - How a Pine Cone Protects or Releases Seeds
07:58 - Red Squirrel Caching
08:41 - Red Squirrel Caching Techniques
09:19 - Eurasian Jays and Red Squirrels
10:22 - Nut Selection
10:51 - Risky Caching
11:47 - Red Squirrel Nut Thief
12:35 - Nut Bonanza
14:07 - Tree Caching
15:56 - Preserving The Cache
16:22 - Red Squirrel Territory and Home Range
17:10 - Red Squirrel Social Encounters & Dominance Hierarchy
17:55 - Red Squirrel Scent Marking
18:10 - The Beauty of Red Squirrels
20:16 - Red Squirrel Morphology
21:37 - Red Squirrel Feet and Claws
22:48 - Red Squirrel Tail
23:14 - Red Squirrel Tail Wagging
23:37 - Red Squirrel Foot Stomping and Calls
23:55 - Countershading and Camouflage
24:15 - Red Squirrel Sight, Smell and Hearing
26:00 - Climate
26:54 - Red Squirrel Mortality
27:31 - Red Squirrel Predators
28:23 - Pine Martens, Buzzards, Goshawks and Sparrowhawks
29:18 - Red Squirrel Threat Response
30:40 - Habitat Loss
30:48 - Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
31:04 - Squirrel Pox Virus
31:19 - Grey Squirrel Contraception
32:27 - Pine Martens and Grey Squirrel Numbers
33:25 - Red Squirrel Dreys
35:12 - Red Squirrel Drey Construction
36:33 - Red Squirrel Reproduction
39:00 - Rearing the Young
40:18 - Red Squirrel Moulting
40:43 - Red Squirrel Life Expectancy
41:19 - Helping Red Squirrels

'The Secret Life of the Red Squirrel' is my third wildlife film.

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WATCH MY OTHER FILMS
You can watch my first film here:
'Life in the Colony - The Life of the Herring Gull - From Egg to First Flight'
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You can watch my second film here:
'The Secret Life of the Pine Marten'
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ADOPT A RED SQUIRREL
If you would like to help keep Red Squirrels around for future generations then you can support the fantastic work being done to protect them by adopting a Red Squirrel:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/adopt-...

LEARN MORE ABOUT RED SQUIRRELS
If you want to learn more about Red Squirrels then I can recommend this fantastic book:
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