I often enjoy the more common side of nature, the nature in our own backyards or neighborhood park that we see every day – for example, the eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It&#8… ...

If a squirrel has been eating your tomatoes, digging up your bulbs or raiding your bird feeder, odds are it's an eastern fox squirrel. Although this rodent is not from around here, it's made ...

Then there is the largest squirrel of all, the gorgeous eastern fox squirrel. A whopper can weigh 3 pounds and stretch 3 feet or more from nose to outstretched tail tip.

There are two kinds of tree squirrels in Oklahoma, and we have both in the Skiatook area. They are eastern fox squirrel and eastern gray squirrel. The fox squirrel is ...

Black squirrels are seen across North America and England Crazyjoepaul via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Despite differences in coloring, eastern gray squirrels and so-called black ...

I grew up near the mountains. Weather permitting, our family would spend weekends at various campsites along the Rocky Mountain Front. As a kid, I was accustomed to seeing and ...

My backyard has been taken over by a group of very lively squirrels. They like to dig holes in my garden, flower pots and yard to hide the peanuts that ...

Whenever most people envision a squirrel, I suspect they have a mental image of the Eastern Fox Squirrel, which occurs throughout Northcentral Texas and Southwestern Oklahoma. However, there is a ...

Q: Fox squirrels are larger and seem to be less common than the gray squirrels around here. What can you tell me about them?