Friends of Wooler Common

06/03/2026

Love is in the air up at the ponds🐸💘🐸

23/02/2026

We wouldn't want to miss the opportunity to vote for Neil Hudspath's GREATEST EVER photo of one of our RED squirrels would we? Link below. VOTE FOR PHOTO NUMBER 13. Share with your friends if you would please. Make Our Red Squirrels Great Again 🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿🐿 and
make Neil a WINNER 🏆🏆🏆🏆.

Select your favourite photograph from the 26 shortlisted, to choose your Northumberland National Park Photographer of the Year!

13/01/2026

Great News....Alex at Forestry England has informed us that work starts tomorrow on pond clearances at Wooler Common. Not only is the main pond being cleared out but also the 100% overgrown pond further upstream (yes there is another pond).

The pond work will be followed by footpath improvements in areas where the surface has failed or where roots have uplifted the surface.

Please follow safety signage whilst the works are in progress.

17/11/2025

Red squirrels were out to play in the winter sunshine this morning. I think one adult on the feeder and two kits larking around.

Silent film music by: Kevin Macleod.
"Batty McFaddin - Slower" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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11/11/2025

Bird boxes were the order of the day today. One was a refubished box that had stood the test of time but needed a little work to keep it going. Two were made from a recycled furniture. There are another 9 at home waiting to be put up.....

08/11/2025

Bumped into the wild goats on the old golf course this morning. Great to see them paying the village a visit.... but not great to see that the Heartbreak Hill "bonsai" tree has been sawn off by someone in the last week or so. Looks like they smashed the rocks off the little crag 😡.

12/10/2025

Please drive slowly at Wooler Common duckponds. We know that squirrels have no traffic sense but this is what happened today by a fast driver.

29/09/2025

The squirrel feeders were busy today....

20/09/2025

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03/09/2025

Now that the missing person has been found, I would like to draw your attention to the poster below.
Thank you for your attention in this matter!

01/09/2025

Sightings of any grey squirrels or of any reds that look sick please share to the Wooler Red Squirrel Group https://www.facebook.com/share/1BG2coBD5N/. This will assist in a speedy response following the arrival of squirrel pox in the area (carried by the invasive greys and deadly to the reds). Be vigilant, keep calm and carry on.

The Wooler Red Squirrel Group work to conserve the red squirrel population in rural Northumberland

30/08/2025

This awful news. Can people refrain from filling any squirrel feeders please. We need to avoid any mor reds being infected by the greys.
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Devastating news from Wooler Common. As you can see from this photo our wonderful population of red squirrels has been hit by an outbreak of squirrel pox. This disease is fatal and may have been carried into the area by one of the rogue grey squirrels that have appeared in recent weeks. We will do our best to contain the spread and to assist with this we will be removing all feeder boxes and discontinuing all feeding. We would be grateful if photographers who enjoy their frequent visits would be cautious in attracting squirrels into one area by putting out food. We will keep you informed of the situation via more Facebook posts over coming days/weeks.