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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Spicy Jane is a real nut. The baby squirrel races around her enclosure, jumping on her adoptive squirrel brother Cyrus, who is a wee bit older. If you open her enclosure, she will jump on you. The ...

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 ...

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 ...