Because of the heavy snow I'm cleaning the bird feeders every 15 mins a couple photos (update x 2)

[Divernan]

24. The place I stayed in the Scottish highlands had red squirrels.

These ginger beauties are tres adorbs, as the kids say. Interesting facts

Highland Region is the only part of mainland Britain with red squirrels but no grey squirrels. Elsewhere, red squirrel numbers have crashed. In part, this is because the introduced grey out-competes the smaller red. Red squirrels were themselves re-introduced to Scotland in the late 1800s after an earlier, catastrophic population crash.

When and where to see

Red squirrels don’t hibernate, but do spend a lot of time holed-up in leafy shelters - ‘dreys’ - up trees in winter. The Caledonian pinewoods of Strathspey and Deeside and glens west of Loch Ness are red squirrel hotspots. So are the mixed woods on either side of Loch Ness itself and the Galloway Forest Park in the south. One place that you are very likely to see squirrels is at the feeding station on the pinewood nature trail at Landmark, Carrbridge.