The winter is a Greta time to watch for wildlife and New York State has an abundance of beautiful animals to see!

When the beechnut crop is poor, rough barked maple trees serve as “ladders” for entry to the canopy of mature beech trees whose smooth bark acts as a barrier to this “ground squirrel”. Once in the ...

Although the squirrels could be mistaken for a chipmunk, Sasse said their defining features are their 13 lines. "Thirteen-lined ground squirrels are about the same size as the chipmunk ...

This common tree squirrel of the Adirondacks is about half the size of a gray squirrel, and is stouter, longer, and lacks the dorsal stripes of the eastern chipmunk. The red squirrel is about 30 cm ...