How do red squirrels normally move?

The Red Squirrel prefers coniferous forests but also lives in hardwood forests as well. They are even known for tunneling underneath the snow. Red Squirrels have what are called middens, they are favorite feeding posts, and pine cones, pine cone fragments, and nutshells accumulate underneath/around them. Red Squirrels have a special way of hoarding their nuts. They bury their nuts in one central cache. read more

To keep track of "our" squirrels, we used spray paint to mark them. We used red for males, orange for females, and another color for the specific release site. All in all, the females came back a little more often, gravid or not, when the release site was within a mile or two. read more