by Victoria Hill, KUTV Sun, March 5th 2023 at 7:44 PM ...

Not every nest in trees is a bird nest! Here's what a squirrel nest looks like and how to deter squirrels from nesting in your yard.

Plant small conifer trees for birds! Seed-filled or berrylike cones offer food for birds like crossbills, while dense branches provide four-season refuge as a place to nest or hide from predators.

If you also have fruit trees in your garden, you may be tempted to place your bird feeder near or on them. After all, if you have squirrels that eat off your fruit trees, the bird feeder seem to ...

The work required to remove branches. Plus, if all your trees’ branches are already pruned, you can’t prune them again—cutting back too many branches can harm a tree's overall health.

This particular squirrel has recently started chewing off sycamore branches from the tree. It has stripped most of the branches of 3/8-inch diameter and smaller from a main branch of the tree.

A large old tree with a complex canopy near Canberra. We used AI to extract and classify its 4,122 branches. Stanislav Roudavski / Alex Holland Trees, birds and power poles Molonglo hosts a once ...

On average, we found large old trees had 383 metres of the horizontal or dead branches preferred by birds, while medium trees had very little and young trees none.