It has been some time since local wildlife enthusiast Marty Mahowald asked me what I knew about black squirrels. He went on to explain that in recent years, he has noticed more of these critters ...

I have a confession: I don’t understand the hate people have for squirrels. I don’t understand the eagerness for building “squirrel-proof” bird feeders and such. Yes, squirrels can be greedy little ...

I disagree with David A. Fahrenthold that nobody has paid much attention to the release of the Canadian black squirrels and their distribution in the Rock Creek watershed ["Making Itself at Home; Heat ...

Over the years of writing, we have seen various repetitions of questions about animals, especially about ones like the black squirrel that visited our yard a few days ago in the second week of ...

At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...

Most Penn students know that black squirrels are a common sight on campus now, but the unofficial fixtures of campus culture were likely introduced to Penn over 200 years ago. “Black squirrels” — a ...

I have conducted surveys of black squirrels through the years. Here is an example with totals within parenthesis: 1987 (50), 1988 (40), 1995 (56), 2017 (26) a short survey, 2019 (75). This year, the ...

DEAR JOAN: While driving down my street today, I saw a black tree squirrel. I stopped to watch it for a few minutes. It was somewhat smaller than a red tree squirrel, and its tail was not quite as ...