On Oct. 20, I found myself near Wooster, in Wayne County, attempting to photograph waterfowl. As we slunk along a wooded wetland border, I noticed movement in a nearby tree. A black squirrel! I was ...

Red squirrel’s speed, hypervigilance and agility help them evade predators such as weasels, pine martens, raptors and fishers ...

Six long years have elapsed since I last wrote about southern flying squirrels. That column ran on Dec. 31, 2017, and was made possible by the doyen of flying squirrels, Professor Don Althoff of the ...

With writer Sue Pike away, this is a reprised edition of Nature News from August 2023. I put up my bird feeders last week and started thinking about what to do about the squirrels that usually take ...

I am always looking for an excuse to learn and write about squirrels, so jumped at the chance to visit the latest arrivals at the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick in York, Maine — orphaned baby ...

"There's no animal as fast as the mountain boomer, the little red squirrel. 'He's so fast,' said Lindsey Rogers, a mountain man who grew up at a time when the woods were full of boomers, 'he can cut a ...

Note: This column originally was published Nov. 19, 2010. "There's no animal as fast as the mountain boomer, the little red squirrel. 'He's so fast,' said Lindsey Rogers, a mountain man who grew up at ...

The Northland is home to several large maple trees. Growing big with very colorful leaves, they dominate the forest in fall. It is hard not to notice their dynamic blended colors at that time. But in ...

Native red squirrels are expanding across central Scotland thanks to the efforts of a 'pioneering' nature conservation project.

Mar. 8—The winter of 2023-24 has been not quite the warmest on record for the Northland, but nearly so. While December and February were contenders for the No. 1 spot, January provided us with a few ...