When I got up this morning, it was snowing like crazy. That was because yesterday, I dared suggest that winter was ending. I should know better. I took pictures, then went back to bed. When I got up a few hours later, there was just a dusting of snow left on the grass. It had melted in a few hours.

I hardly ever see the squirrels these days unless I’m awake at five or six in the morning. In the grey of dawn, the deck is covered with red squirrels. They are wrapped around the feeders or waiting on the railing for currently feeding squirrels to detach and let the others eat. We may have even more squirrels than doves — and we have an awful lot of doves, though they mostly no longer try to eat at our feeders.

I’ve seen as many as a dozen squirrels gathered on our deck. It isn’t a big deck, either. We did have, in midday a couple of days ago one of the adorable tiny red ones in the small box feeder She was no bigger than a bird and had taken it over, almost nesting in the middle of the seeds.

She was so cute, all I could do was watch and say “awww.” I should have tried to take pictures, but I didn’t want to scare her. Those little red ones are always female currently nesting with young ones and they are always watching for potential trouble — mostly hawks.

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