Dear Gary: After seeing and hearing barn owls in our backyard last summer and fall, we decided to put up a barn owl nest box. It is on a pine tree trunk, approximately 20 feet above the ground.

And I know the owl box isn't the problem because identical boxes have successfully attracted nesting birds to the back yards of several readers. The most recent excited announcement arrived last week ...

For most of us, Tropical Storm Michael is now a distant memory from this summer, but a woman named Debbie Colson in Irwinton formed a special relationship thanks to the wind and the rain. "The morning ...

The other day a little squirrel scrambled from my squirrel box and up the live oak tree, and then another came out and jumped up on the roof of the box. Then I saw two more youngsters climbing around ...

Larry Weber mentioned flying squirrels in his Budgeteer column last week. It reminded me of an experience, almost a year ago, when Wildwoods received several young flying squirrels. I will just say ...

I was driving a friend home one evening last week. This was up in the hills of North Berwick, where huge oaks and maples hang over the road making a tunnel through the forest. The headlights scared up ...

A landscaping crew at the University of Nebraska found flying squirrels nesting in a dying oak tree they were cutting down on campus at the School of Natural Resource. The crew from the university ...

If you hear scrabbling in the attic, that's a strong indication you have squirrels. Other signs include a stash of acorns or nuts, nesting in the insulation, a strong smell of urine, chirping babies, ...

Dusk was just settling across their backyard in southeast Lincoln a couple years ago when Kate Martens and her husband were relaxing on the patio, chatting and enjoying the first signs of summer ...

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 ...

We installed a barn owl nest box in a backyard tree. We want to attract owls so they will eat rodents that are active at night. But fox squirrels moved into the owl nest box and are using it for their ...