If you’ve ever looked up at a tangled ball of twigs high in a tree and wondered what it was, chances are you were staring at a squirrel’s nest, also called a drey. These clever little structures might ...

From my kitchen window in Decatur earlier this week, I saw a gray squirrel with a wad of dead leaves and twigs in its mouth scamper up a white oak in the backyard. I assumed the mouthful of material ...

A gentleman from Andover witnessed, and well described, the behavior or a pair of gray squirrels gathering leaves in fall to build a nest together. Never having seen this process, I have always been ...

The summer foliage of deciduous trees has dropped and their bare limbs are exposed. What is discovered in the bare canopies? The bare winter tree limbs reveal what busy neighborhood squirrels have ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Nature’s Nursery has teamed up with Inspired Lumber Workshop in Toledo to offer the public the chance to build and sponsor a nest box to help out squirrels this coming winter.

We love the thought of birds nesting in our yards. The thought that such a small creature could feel safe enough in our presence to raise its young is heartwarming, indeed — but not all clusters of ...

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