Date: 02/21/2011

Number: 1

Noticed the mating colors are starting to really get brighter on the cardinals along with the male house finches getting their brillant red back. Feeding three different species of squirrels through out the years I noticed one of my regular Fox squirrel at the feeder getting very plump in her stomach with baby squirrels will be born in the next coming month of March. Squirrels give birth twice a year March into April and August into September. The last 2 years I have gray squirrels nesting in a hole in my old maple tree outside my window. Watch them go in and out throughout the day also carrying bunches of leaves in their mouths to the hole making nests for this years new comers. I have 3 species Gray, Fox, Red squirrels with the Gray squirrels over the years taking over my feeders and being much more aggressive towards the other species.

Morris, IL

Latitude: 41.4 Longitude: -88.4

Observed by: Wendy
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