Mother Squirrel Tries to Revive Baby
I went to the park yesterday after the rain had stopped. While walking in the Ravine I noticed a squirrel running across the path with a baby in its mouth.It wasn't until I got to the Meer and took a series of photos of this mother squirrel trying to revive her baby that I realized what happened. The heavy rains must have flooded squirrel nests and washed some of the babies out of the nest.
The poor mother squirrel tried everything to revive her baby: she licked and pulled at its paws; she lifted it up and shook it; she rolled it over on its back and nuzzled its belly. Finally she ran off with it across the park drive. I didn't see any movement in the baby squirrel but looking back over my photos I did notice its eyes open in some photos and closed in others. There may have been some faint spark of life left in this baby and the mother squirrel was doing everything she could to bring her baby back to life.
