I hate to say it, but those pesky gray squirrels are ingenious! Anyone who has put out a birdfeeder with peanuts or sunflower seeds knows that it usually does not take squirrels long to figure out a way to get at the seeds.

Pine squirrels are interesting little mammals. They are not extremely common in some areas of their range, due mainly to the presence of the larger and more aggressive gray squirrel. But they can be found throughout the Great Lakes states, the Appalachian Mountains and much of Canada.