For those of us of a certain age, it's hard not to recall TV's Rocky and Bullwinkle when thinking of flying squirrels. No, they don't all live in Frostbite Falls. In fact, southern flying squirrels ...

A great window-gazing pleasure is watching how the backyard squirrels can contort themselves into amazing and often comical positions to steal seed from my neighbor's bird feeder. While I might ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Even the best bird feeders face a singular mortal enemy: squirrels. These fluffy rodents may be cute, but ...

If squirrels are common where you live and you have a bird feeder in your garden, chances are these bushy-tailed bandits are helping themselves to the food you've left out for your avian friends. It's ...

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 live near a woodland, and one of the biggest issues I have with my bird feeder is trying to keep squirrels off it. These cheeky creatures will often dominate my bird feeder, stealing resources away ...

Frolicking in the trees, foraging for acorns on the ground, even begging for a peanut or two at your back deck - squirrels can be cute as dickens. Until the little dickens stake their claim to your ...

For most of my life, birds haven't interested me much, but sometime in the pandemic, I started adding bird feeders to my garden, and now I am completely charmed by my new visitors. The number one ...

WASHINGTON — Squirrels might look like adorable, nut-hoarding furballs, but some are ruthless predators that hunt, tear apart, and devour voles. That’s the startling finding of a new study published ...

I put up my bird feeders last week and started thinking about what to do about the squirrels that usually take more bird feed than the birds. Squirrels are much-maligned at bird feeders; we put out ...