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 ...

Some see squirrels as adorable, bushy-tailed creatures that run in circles around tree trunks before they finally race up ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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

DRIVING HOME from work one recent late afternoon on my country road commute, a small dark critter made the mad dash across the road a few dozen yards ahead of my truck. It was well on the other side ...

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 ...

Our master gardener reveals the strategies she employs to keep squirrels away from her raised beds, whether it's using wire, ...

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 ...

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 ...