To expand on that analogy, squirrels will often have several dreys, three or more in an area, which you can think of as ...

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 ...

It's always pleasant to see a bird nest in one of the trees in your yard, but sometimes looks can be deceiving. You don't ...

That strange ball of leaves and twigs in your empty tree isn't quite what you think it is... and you definitely don't want to ...

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 ...

In the starkness of winter, squirrel dreys reveal themselves in the tree canopy. They’ve been there all along — just screened by trees’ leafy crowns for much of the year. Dreys are shaggy masses of ...

It is no doubt just a coincidence, but in the last month, I have had four queries regarding large nests — from six or so to about 20 trees, with nests high up in dead trees. One person thought they ...

If you’re like many New Jerseyans, you probably haven’t given much thought to squirrels, except maybe wondering how to keep them out of your birdfeeders. They’re so common in every New Jersey ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a lighthearted and largely tongue-in-cheek (or should it be nut-in-cheek?) look at the large squirrel population on the University of Alabama campus. The University of Alabama ...