Red squirrels are one of the U.K.s most attractive mammals. We visit some hides in Yorkshire. 

Cheeky squirrel. My dad had a steel cable strung between two trees, with a corn cob hanging in the middle by a chain. He loved watching them walk across the cable, pull up the chain, eat the corn, drop it, then walk back. So clever. Wish I had a video of that.

Even though the weather was appalling you still put out a very good video with excellent still images. I always look forward to 8.00 am on a Saturday and wish you better luck on your next visit.

The G9II squirrel footage @ 120fps slowed down 5x looks great. I'm sure I remember still seeing some red squirrels among the grey ones in the London parks as a kid in the late 1960s. We were told then their numbers were declining due to their invasive grey cousins. However, online sources today say they were already long gone from London by then. Anyone else still remember them in London in the 1960s?

Nice, the Lumix G9II photos look all much more colorful than from the OM-1. I like the Lumix G9II photos/videos much more. Any ideas?

I enjoyed the squirrels today, Mike. It might have dull and gray out but its still better than being cooped up inside. Cheers.

Another great video. I saw and photographed red squirrels for the first time in the Yorkshire Dales at Snaizeholme. Wonderful. I didn't video them and my photos are nothing like as good as yours, but it was a wonderful few hours. The only disappointment was people ignoring the "Please don't feed the squirrels" signs clearly visible. Best to go when there is nobody else around if you can.

Even though the light is poor there are some cracking images and video !

Another great video Mike.

I want to let you know that I enjoy your films en foto's very, very much. When I start my computer, the first thing I do is looking at the internet to see if you have posted something. Please keep up the good work. I will stay looking at it. Aloys Sanders Zevenaar, the Netherlands

Video looks better in low light in comparison to stills due to the dynamic noise. Also the shutter speed required for video is much lower, as motion blur is an appealing characteristic, which is far more forgiving than in stills where we look to freeze motion.

Lovely footage despite the poor weather. The squirrels are really adorable. Hope your next visit is more rewarding and You get to get the squirrels jumping across the posts

Great images and video Mike (as always). I can't rate Paul Fowlie's setup highly enough (and he's a great guy too)

I hope to visit this spot in July. Fingers crossed for some good weather.🤞

A video to brighten up another dull start to the day supposed to be able to see the glowing orb at some point today ! Great place only see them on Brownsea and the Isle of Wight around me awesome

Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Thank you!

I’ve done these hides with Paul and after a fantastic day taking pictures of the Red Squirrels, I immediately booked onto the Badger Hide. Well worth the money and Paul is a cracking lad to boot.

Thanks Mike another wonderful video, so peaceful. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Mike

Great video! Beautiful creatures! I’d like to visit Yorkshire again someday to see the red, as I’ve never seen them in person before! I often photograph and feed the greys where I am. Squirrels are such amazing animals! Thanks for bringing us your video! 😊

good job, Mike

Lovely stuff Mike, really put a smile on my face.

Fun video and great images and footage, as usual. Thanks for braving the elements and for taking us along. :)

Those poor little bedraggled squirrels are very cute.

Whatever the weather Mike you still got some great shots, a lot of cameras/lens at those high ISOs wouldn’t have got such good images for sure, the photos from the reflection pool were great taking the conditions on the day into consideration, jobs a gudn! 👍

The Red Squirrel should be the national animal of England. Currently it's the Lion, seems outdated to me? Yet, the humble Red Squirrel is a symbol of resilience, overcoming the aggressive attacks invading its natural surroundings, but somehow slowly making a comeback. #RedSquirrelForUK

Your not wrong about the weather Mike it's been an awful Christmas lovely slo mo video again 👍

hi Mike thank you for sharing this beautiful video, I enjoyed your beautiful images. There is no such thing as being able to photograph bad weather, but there is no such thing as bad photographers who cannot deal with all weather conditions.😂 Greatings from an wet Netherlands 😂

Nice video Mike. It looks a good set up.

great to see are native red squirrels doing well

super stuff! subbed

Excellent video Mike in very challenging conditions, thank you for posting.👍

Hi Mike, only seen two red squirrels both north of Watford Gap. Great video thanks for sharing. I like doing photography and video in the rain.

Great video, Mike. Such a shame about the weather but some lovely images. Hope it is cold and frosty next time you visit. I've been to this hide twice and loved it. Can't wait to go again!

Happy New Year to you Mike. Yet another superb video, look forward to your next red squirrel video. I have been watching your channel for sometime now and I’m so impressed by your images, I have now brought myself an OM 1 and a 150-400mm lens. Thank you for being such an inspiration.

Great video Mike, i remember visiting this hide many years ago when Simon Philpotts set it up, wonderfull experience, we rented Mirk Pot barn recently (were the family who planted the forest lived). Had similar weather. Good luck next visit.

happy new year Mike, thx for your videos (also have the G9II next to the OM1 - for video that is - prefer the OM1 for the stills)

Thanks for the great video, I didn't know of this place. It's weird watching your vids as one of my mentors as a mechanic was called Mike Lane.

Thats a lovely Video, you achieved some superb images bearing in mind the weather you had to injure, I imagine its quite tiring being in the hide all day as you need a lot of concentration. Colin.

Great film Mike and many good images despite the weather! Would love to try a panning shot on the jumping squirrels with a nice blurred background, should be possible as one can pre focus on the distance as the take off point and landing are pretty much the same from jump to jump! Hope 2024 is a fantastic year for you! Cheers Tony.

Very nice as ever…. I hope in your next video you can talk a bit more how the GH9 ii performs on the 150-400 regarding continuous autofocus and overall video quality.. regards Ron😀👍

When I photographing birds with the OM1 and a squirrel pop up they all seems to be pin sharp on the eyes. Maybee the programmers on OM-systems implemented the squirrels in the bird detection and not the animal-detection.? Or both maybee? Also like to share my shortcuts: Have pro-capture when I hit the ael button set up with 4000 of a sek. and 50 fps when I hit the AF button(same shutterspeed as in 20fps). And 20 fps in regular use. A great thing is that the camera remember I set down the shutterspeed to ca.2500/sek in pro-capture when I go back and forth until I shut the camera of. Lookin forward to your next one Mike! Always a treat discovering a new video from you!🙂

it does look a good spot --- what lens length do you think is the best. I have only a slow 150 - 300mm lens and wondering if i should hire a longer lens for a visit!

I haven’t made an exhaustive test, but I don’t bother changing the OM 1 subject detection from bird to mammal, bird works for every animal I have encountered so far, deer, frogs, cats, squirrels all get detected very well.

Do you develop OM-1 RAW stills through their proprietary software OM System Workspace? It is equipped with very good AI-based denoise. In defocused areas it beautifully smears the noise and in areas full of detials it gently but decisevely reduces it while preserving the details. This software can reduce noise from OM-1 RAWs to the level of usually processed stills from FF camera. But in other software you can AI-process FF files as well. And there is little doubt that M43 struggles in low light more than FF does. That is just physics. The bigger the lens, the better the results. I use multi camera setups for some of my projects so I had numerous cameras of different sizes (1 inch, m43, canon APS-C, Sony APS-C and FF) and I encounter many situations where m43 just fail to produce usefull image and FF still holds on.

I wonder if the subject detection modes are just priority, so if you have a cat and a bird both in frame it knows what to detect. That would actually make sense, rather than forcing you to change modes for no real reason.

Tree rats - ugh.

squirrels are rodent family......