Gracie didnt visit much during the summer.
She started coming around again. Maybe it’s because the weather has cooled off, who knows.
Gracie knows how to make her needs known. As you can see here, she’s a window peeker.
She seems to think our house is some kind of squirrel drive through, which I guess it is…
We first spotted Piggy in October of last year, and at the time he looked to be about 6-8 weeks old.
This would mean that Piggy was born around this time last year.
Happy birthday, Piggy!
This is our classic squirrel studio picture, the one against which all others are measured.
This is Lucy, one of our most regular visitors.
The photo was taken last fall. Now that the weather is cloudy, maybe it’s high time we set the studio back up to shoot some more pictures.
Hurricane Irene orphaned squirrels all along its path.
Here we have two videos from Virginia, where wildlife rehabilitators are trying to cope with all the squirrels that people have turned in.
The first is from Evelyn’s Wildife Refuge, in Virginia Beach. (Facebook page), shows a rehabber cleaning up a baby that was just brought in and then giving it its first feeding.
WHSV also aired this news story showing how the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro is coping with the influx.
The Wildlife Center of Virginia posted an article (Hurricane Squirrels) on its own website, which shows how the babies are being cared for which includes lots of great photos.
Megan Davis of the News Virginian also wrote this very nice article that describes how the Wildlife Center houses the squirrels. This centre seems to put a lot of thought into creating the right atmosphere for the baby squirrels (they have nature sounds piped in on speaker!). The article has more great photos also.
Both centres accept donations:
Our friends over at the new york squirrel have this heartwarming tale of three orphaned baby squirrels that were stranded alone in the middle of hurricane Irene.
They were crying for their mother, and even though they were cold and scared, they left their nest and climbed down a tree during a rainstorm and right into a human rescuer’s hands.
See the article for the whole story and for more pictures.
We reached Karen Clark of Lovely Lita’s Sheltering Tree Foundation:
Yes that is my story about the three babies that are very likely babies from some I have released. I was so amazed that they would come down to me like they did that I sent out the story to everyone “squirrel related” in my e-mails and put it up on my forum and on the Lovely Lita facebook page as well.
I call them my Miracle Triplets because I thought it was an absolute miracle that they would come to me like they did. [...] I share these stories with anyone that will listen because these animals are the most important thing in the world to me.
This is our Facebook page , and this is our forum.
The Forum is definitely worth checking out, it has lots of posts from other rehabbers under the new members section entitled: ‘Introduce Yourself And Your Squirrel‘
