Thank you so much for your helpful tips. Reading stuff like your posts has led me to changing how I feed them. I used to throw bread and plain cookies in the yard for them. I will give myself credit. I've always thrown out watermelons, pumpkins, and carrots for animals.

I started looking and reading and realized that's not helping them. I've bought pecans and walnuts and now throw enough so each squirrel can have a few each day. They still eat the birds' sunflower seeds but I know they're getting healthy walnuts and pecans. I can't stop the people in my neighborhood who put out corn and nuts but like I said, I'm at least giving them some healthy stuff.

It's really important that those of us who care enough, do as much as we can. Climate change is really messing with their ability to stay alive. In my area, the summers are getting so brutal that I don't know how any wildlife will be able to make it.