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 ...

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about my squirrel woes, specifically my expensive -- and finally successful -- attempt to remove them from my attic. I explained that I now use squirrel-proof feeders and where to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...