You can see lots of wildlife around the Ullapool area including, red deer our largest land mammal, buzzards, seals and many more. If you are interested in wildlife, Ullapool is a great place with loads of nearby places to visit.  There are lots of forest walks around the Ullapool area that the whole family can enjoy.

You don't have to travel far to see the wildlife.  Red deer can be found all over the Scottish highlands.  On the way from Inverness to Ullapool on the A835 there are several areas that you are likely to see red deer from the road.  If you are traveling north to Ullapool from "inchbae lodge" to the "braemore junction"  Google map location Because of their coat the red stags blend in very well with the landscape of the Scottish Highlands spotting them during the day can be very hard to the untrained eye.   When the snow is lying around loch droma and loch glascarnoch you can easily spots the stags at the other side of the loch or on the hillside. 

Dundonnell Estate, owned by Sir Tim & Lady Jane Rice, released 32 red squirrels into is woodland, hoping to re-establish the endangered species in Weste Ross. There have ben no red squirrels in the north and west Highlands for about 30 years, and they are under threat elsewhere from the larger grey squirrel which carries a virus to which the reds are particularly susceptible. The Dundonnell project has been put together by wildlife consultant, Roy Dennis. He was given a licence from Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to trap 50 squirrels from a number of locations in the East Highlands and move them to the Dundonnell Estate. Some squirrels were placed in individual nest boxes located in the woodlands for immeditate release into the wild, and others were released after spending a short time in large aviaries in the woods gettings used to their new surroundings. MR Dennis explained “It is hope that ths translocation will help ensure a viable population in this part of Scotland and a refuge for the reds in the face of the march northwards of the grey squirrel.

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