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  • noun Plural form of drey.

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Examples

  • Winter tree nests (called dreys) are often shared for warmth where tree squirrels keep warm by snuggling with their family members.

    Do tree squirrels hibernate? 2009

  • Winter tree nests (called dreys) are often shared for warmth where tree squirrels keep warm by snuggling with their family members.

    Do tree squirrels hibernate? 2009

  • Now that it is winter time, dreys are much easier to spot.

    Archive 2009-01-01 DNLee 2009

  • The dreys are ingeniously thatched on top with the pale-blond dried leaves and stalks of the maize that is grown in wide bands along the edges of the woods and the lane as pheasant cover.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Now that it is winter time, dreys are much easier to spot.

    Urban Wildlife Watch: Squirrels and Dreys DNLee 2009

  • I pass three dreys in the complex old pollard oaks in the lane.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I pass three dreys in the complex old pollard oaks in the lane.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Above me against the harsh sky in the bare treetops, there were tatty old twiggy nests and heaped squirrel dreys like footballs of leaves stretching all the way down the hill, ten dark clumps through the wood.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • The dreys are ingeniously thatched on top with the pale-blond dried leaves and stalks of the maize that is grown in wide bands along the edges of the woods and the lane as pheasant cover.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Squirrels are often found dead in their dreys (Gurnell 1987).

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

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