What’s going on out on the land?
Deeper Questions of Common Sign : Tracking at Kinghurst
This past Saturday was another outing with the Earth Tracks Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeship. We went out to the Kinghurst forest in Grey County, Ontario to see what we could find together. It was a small group of six of us, but that made it a little bit sweeter as we could really dig in to all of the things we were seeing.
Question book 4 : What do the mating habits of a Grey Squirrel look like?
When I was out I came across some Grey Squirrel tracks with blood beside them. I first thought this might be the same sort of preestrous cycle for the Squirrel…
It got me wondering about the reproductive cycles of one of the most common conspicuous mammal species in my area. When do Grey Squirrels mate? How many partners do they have? Do they mate in the trees, on the ground? How many little Squirrelings do they have? Are they pups, kits, kittens?
So I figured I would look some of this up and try and write it out.