January 21 is National Squirrel Appreciation Day! The holiday was started in 2001 by wildlife rehabilitator Christy Hargrove, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Oct. 20, I found myself near Wooster, in Wayne County, attempting to photograph waterfowl. As we slunk along a wooded wetland ...

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 ...

The Arctic ground squirrel survives conditions that would cause irreparable brain damage in almost any other mammal on the ...

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 ...

Christy Grinton's split-second capture of a bedraggled mother earned finalist honors in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards.

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 ...

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 ...