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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 ...

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 ...

My favorite fall revelations are the locations of the summer leaf and twig nests of the squirrels, which are called dreys. For convenience and safety, each squirrel constructs as many as three dreys ...

If you’ve ever looked up at a tangled ball of twigs high in a tree and wondered what it was, […] ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spring may feel like the right time to neaten up your garden and prune your trees, but be careful — wildlife is probably using those branches as a nursery, even as you read this. Every day during the ...