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 ...

Nesting boxes will be installed along the Coal Point Peninsula at Lake Macquarie in a bid to boost numbers of the threatened squirrel glider. While the numbers of the nocturnal possum are declining in ...

A BURNING question for a lot of folks this time of year is: how to keep those pesky squirrels from ravaging the bird feeder, eating up the seed placed there to see our feathered friends through the ...

Moving into your own home is usually a good excuse for a party. But once this creature had squirrelled away his nuts and seeds, there was only one guest invited to the housewarming – his mum.

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 ...

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 ...