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 ...

He cranes his neck and points to the top branches of a tall 35-foot Tulip Poplar. It's there that WLKY meteorologist John Belski has spied a sign of a rough winter ahead for Southern Indiana and ...

Here we are in the dead of winter with nighttime temperatures falling into single digits, and despite this I am seeing signs that the breeding season for wildlife has begun. On Jan. 15, Mary Alice and ...

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 ...

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Ever since all our leaves fell, the squirrel nests or “dreys” (good Scrabble word) that were secretly built last summer and early fall have become quite visible. My little Brittany, Sosa, was ...

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 ...