Rorrel, My Balcony Garden Squirrel Pet has Babies

Rorrel My Squirrel Pet got Aggressive with Invaders

The other day I witnessed a verbal duel, mostly one sided, between Rorrel my squirrel and a pigeon which had come to have a dip in my lily pool. (I named my squirrel character, Rorrel, a derivative of rodent and squirrel).

My Rorrel was giving out continuous series of chirps, high pitched ones that left the pigeon with a puzzled look in its face. After a while the pigeon could not bear Rorrel’s incessant chirps anymore and flew off. Soon I read up on Squirrel Facts and got to understand its aggressive behavior better.

Aggressive Squirrel

Aggressive Squirrel

Rorrel now advanced and looked directly into my eyes, assessing me top to bottom. I was a bit nervous, because I had read they can leap five to six feet into the air from ground level, what if she decides to jump on me.

I stood motionless, trying to focus on Rorrel’s movement. Surprisingly I found her immune to the sound of the clicks of my camera. The little gal was getting braver.

Rorrel my Squirrel

Rorrel came closer and Grr… showed me her teeth. Those incisors grow six inches per year, but thankfully stay short due to the constant wear they receive. Few more clicks and then she got bored and left the scene.

My Squirrel Pet has Babies

The good news is that my balcony garden visitor, Rorrel, my pet squirrel has babies… two of them. It was the tail I spotted first, how well they were camouflaged in the branches of the small ficus tree I have in my balcony! Squirrel babies are called kits or kittens. They were quite grown up and Mother Rorrel was training them to be on their own.

This baby sat calmly for me, but the unfortunate part was that it was surrounded by so many leaves that I found it hard to focus on the little one. Many of my shots were getting focused on the leaves. It seemed to be sunbathing with its eyes closed.

squirrel pet balcony garden

These pictures were of one of the babies who seemed to be camera shy. As soon it sensed I was aiming at her, she went back to her hiding place.

squirrel baby

Squirrel Baby

Squirrel pet has babies

Hilary did mention in her comment when I blogged about the verbal duel between her and a pigeon in one of my previous posts. She did guess, “I wonder if there were young in the area and she(?) was making sure nobody came any closer.”. I scanned the area, but could never find the babies. They were in their infancy stages then I am sure. I missed the infancy stages of these babies, Rorrel had hidden them in the big pot, I could never guess.

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