Jack, don't feel badly about "messing with the nest." I've watched female
squirrels with kits/pups ( ?) and believe that Mom routinely moves them
from the whelp-nest to a new location as soon as eyes open and/or the
little ones begin vocalizing. Regardless of accidental nest discovery by
humans, moving the young before they give away their location is just sound
predation escape.

not that I've STUDIED Squirrel in the wild, thats my 2 cents FWIW.

Sue
West Bethel ME




"Jack Schmidling" wrote in message
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Great pictures. You seem like a guy who really enjoys and appreciates
the outdoors.....

Been that way since a child.... catching frogs when the family went
fishing
and made me go with.

Please keep the pictures coming.

Unfortunately, we went for the weekly update today and the nest was empty.
Guess Mom didn't like us messing with her kids.

js


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