Spatz, it is probable that the first litters will be delivered soon, anyway the first litter can be delivered in a very early spring time, actually in winter. Their first fur is told to be gray! Of course they stay in the nest for some weeks..

I am a bit worried. How many squirrel is it possible to live in this area?? What should I do?
I have been giving food for squirrels for some years now, and as a result I believe that the number of them has increased in double! Anyway, each of them I have seen, looks healthy and lively, and alert, normal country squirrels.
I think there are now about 10-12 squirrels around here.
The number of small birds has crown too! In this winter we have seen here about 20 Blue tits, as much as Great tits, 2-4 Coal tits, four species of woodpeckers, about ten together, Black birds 10-15, 4-5 Ravens (perhaps less than in the earlier years - they never land close to the house), a little flock of Jackdaws too make noise sometime in the spruces, some two Mag pies, 20-25 Bullfinches visit every other day, and today I saw one lonely
Goldfinch!
I think that also Wood pigeons may appear in any day!!
Moose we haven't seen this winter at all, but White tailed deer and Roe deer walk through Squirrel hill every other week, some times in the morning we can see their foot prints around the empty sun flower seed feeder..
I do not forget the Wood mouse! They must be more than I have seen, only two, seldom. - Nappu knows their hiding place!

They are too clever to come out from their hide under the stone terrace when Nappu is there sniffing them.
No fox has been seen either, but some rabbits there are and they already have eaten my
''Punavihma'' – Cytisus purpureus - a little bush, a pea plant, decorative while blooming..
but it has been eaten now, again..
