As I wrote the other day:
Don’t forget to bookmark the Snoozy the Squirrel animalcam so you can see her sleeping in the nest or coming and going. I’m pretty sure she’s pregnant and is going to have babies, so keep an eye on the nest.
Snoozy is an eastern gray squirrel (Scirus carolinensis), and their gestation period is about 40-45 days after mating. The young are born without fur, but quickly grow up and leave the nest within 50 days. In the meantime, they’re ineffably cute. With luck, they’ll be born and stay in this nest, though females often move their litters around to escape predation (they seem pretty safe on that ledge). Females have about two litters per year, and this must be the second.
Click on the screenshot below to see her, and don’t forget to click on the “forward” arrow at the lower left.
Snoozy’s cam was down for the weekend, as it has to be reset daily, but she’s back, though right now she’s out foraging. Click on screenshots to see her (or her empty nest. The first photo is from a few minutes ago. Some of her nest seems to have been displaced off the ledge, so perhaps she’s not pregnant after all (or perhaps Snoozy is a Man Squirrel!):
Here she was last evening:
Great reminder on cool creature cams!
I just checked on Tower Girl :
“Due to renovations at the top of the Main Tower, the falcon cam has been disabled. Renovations are slated to finish in 2026. ”
They have other cams to check, like this owl cam :
http://www.youtube.com/live/NUT3nZJWn64?si=ArR6e7ZZooi3cuPL
… so far, no signal .. or whatever you call it.
… I think users are inundating the cam – seems stuck…
Like the Slashdot Effect, but from WEIT.
Happy to see that the cam is back up! I was afraid that something had happened to Snoozy or that he/she had decamped.
Now I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed that Snoozy is a floozy.