The bare winter tree limbs reveal what busy neighborhood squirrels have been building during the summer months. Squirrel nests! Squirrels are clever engineers. Squirrel nests are created by the ...

Ripe hickory nuts are plentiful this time of year, but the crop doesn't mature all at once. Nuts ripen in one section of ...

However, while this is always a possibility, tree squirrels will also construct their nests in trees. There are two main types of tree squirrel nests. The first is the most common to see: the leaf ...

Finally, nests among trees made by squirrels are primarily leafy, and somewhat round, having a hollow inside, while great-blue heron nests are more flat and platform like.

The other thing to look for is where squirrels are building their nests in the trees. The higher up the nest is in the tree and the closer to the trunk, the colder it will be.

This squirrel’s mother heard him crying and hopped warily into the box. She used her teeth to gently pick her baby up by the scruff of the neck, then leapt up a nearby tree to her secondary nest.

We determined characteristics of nest trees and surrounding habitats used by northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) in subboreal forests of northwestern British Columbia during winters ...

White squirrels, however, cannot hide in any season. Enon is known for its white squirrel population. The openness of leafless trees reveals their antics and interactions with the gray squirrels.