Zink is an experienced climber and has worked as an arborist. He has also constructed and operated ropes courses at the North Carolina Outward Bound School. Rather than put the two remaining boxes in a different location as previously planned, we decided to place them in the same general vicinity as the first two but higher up, at least twice as high. In doing so, we hope to determine if height is a major factor in squirrel use. The information will be very valuable in future site selection as the number of available nesting boxes increases.
Preliminary results indicate that squirrels do prefer the higher boxes.
In April, while visiting the box shown in the photograph to your left, two squirrels scampered out. Both were gray. Unfortunately, since that time, bees have moved in and we haven't yet figured out how to safely evict them.