Eastern Gray Squirrels feed on a great variety of nuts, seeds, fungi, fruits, and sometimes the tender layer of tree bark. Eastern Gray Squirrels commonly store acorns and other nuts in holes in the ground and are an important component in the regeneration of forests because not all of the nuts are recovered. Eastern Gray Squirrels are diurnal and live for the most part in trees. They next in holes in trees, or build nests of leaves in the branches of trees. The large clumps of leaves you see in trees in the winter are generally squirrel nests.
Squirrels communicate with a series of sharp barks usually accompanied with flicks of their tails.
Eastern Gray Squirrels have two broods a year. Gestation takes about 40 days and the young are weaned after two months. There are 3 to 5 young per litter. All rights reserved.