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 ...

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 ...

Winter is coming—but it's often challenging to predict how harsh the weather will be. Instead of the weather app, folklore suggests we should be turning to squirrels for a sign. Farmers and weather ...

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Ready or not, winter is headed our way. The coldest and darkest season of the year runs from Dec. 21, through March 20, which leads to the inevitable question — what type of winter weather can we ...

Woolly bear caterpillars are the perennial stars of wildlife-based winter weather forecasting, and we have plenty of reports from them, but squirrels are really stealing the show this year. In ...