It's a familiar frustration for bird lovers: the careful stocking of feeders, only for agile grey squirrels to effortlessly snaffle seeds and fatballs. Over the years, desperate measures to stop these ...

If you ever wondered why squirrels are so infuriatingly effective at thwarting every garden solution you can come up with, just remember they have existed for 35 million years. In comparison, our ...

Squirrels, mice, raccoons, and other animals love snacking on the bird seed you put in your feeders, making it harder for small avians to count on you when they are hungry. If this is something you're ...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in the suburban New York City area, surrounded by beech/oak forest, we sat in a wonderful place to enjoy the seasonal comings and goings of a wide variety of birds. And since my parents ...