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The diet of gray squirrels typically includes acorns, hickory nuts, walnuts, beechnuts, maple (buds, bark, and samaras), tulip poplar blossoms, American hornbeam seeds, apples, fungi, black cherry, flowering dogwood, grapes, sedges, grasses and American holly. Trees most commonly used by gray squirrels are white oak, Americanīeech, American elm, red maple and sweetgum. Many functions from balance to shade to a rudder when swimming. Gray squirrels have large, bushy tails which serve The color is good camouflage and protects them from Most gray squirrels are just as their name

One of the most common squirrels in Maryland is the gray squirrel, which lives almost anywhere that it can find open woodlands (especially oak and hickory forests). Red squirrels nest in tree cavities and in ground dwellings Variety of evergreens on your property, especially pines and Territorial and will not let other squirrels, even of different Squirrels eat a variety of foods and are even known to tap sugar Prefer evergreen trees and mainly live in Western Maryland. These squirrelsĪre less common and smaller than gray squirrels.

Red squirrels, also called pine squirrels, are red. All but the Delmarva fox squirrel are common species found throughout most of Maryland. Five species of squirrels can be found in Maryland: red squirrel, gray squirrel, southern flying squirrel, eastern fox squirrel and the Delmarva fox squirrel.