A Scurry of Squirrels : Nurturing the Wild / Polly Pullar and Romain Pizzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pullar, Polly, author.

Pizzi, Romain, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eurasian red squirrel--Scotland--Perthshire.

Eurasian red squirrel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Birlinn Limited, [2021]

Summary:

Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild. In this book she shares her experiences and love for the squirrel and explores how our perceptions have changed.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. The Power of Squirrel Nutkin

2. Bough Lines

3. Cull of the Wild

4. The Arboreal Athlete

5. A Drey in the Life of a Squirrel

6. A Grey Area

7. The Compost Café

8. Care of the Wild

9. Drey in a Lunch Bag

10. For the Love of Trees

11. The Squirrels' Return

12. Natural Conflicts

13. Ruby

14. Squirrel Tales

15. Squirrel Summer

16. Three Squirrels in a Bookshop

17. Squirrels Go West

18. Letting Go

19. Owls in the Chimney

20. Helen and Pipkin

21. Cloudy

22. Squirrels on the Move

23. Alladale

24. Foresting Hope for the Red Squirrel

Afterword: The Child in Nature

Acknowledgements

Picture Sections.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781788854658

1788854659

OCLC:

1259322523