Saved squirrel is now bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
FOUND blind and alone in a nest after his tree was chopped down, this red squirrel was even more endangered than the rest of his species.
But thanks to hourly feeds of puppy milk formula by Sheelagh McAllister, he will soon be released back into the wild. Billy, named after the comedian Billy Connolly, was found in Insch, Aberdeenshire, at one week old, on March 12. He was abandoned by his mother who probably fled the nest as the tree was felled.
With only about 150,000 reds left in Britain, gardeners are being warned not to disturb nests at this time of year. Miss McAllister, 32, of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said: ‘I have fallen for his character’.