More New Babies

We don't have a picture - wouldn't want to get too close. But this early morning my husband saw a mother skunk and 3 little ones parading along the top of a retaining wall.

Mom Scarface and her troop are doing fine. Yesterday it stormed most of the day and only 2 of the kittens showed up to eat in between rainstorms, leaving us concerned as to the whereabouts of kitten number 3. This morning they were all back on our porch. Apparently kitten number 3 chose to sleep in yesterday. Or maybe she got too close to a skunk and was persona non grata for a while.

What a Surprise !!!

I thought colony had pretty much exhausted all the "cute" things I could report on, so haven't added to my blog for some time. However, recently our neighbor alerted us to the news that kittens had been spotted. "Oh Yes," we said. We never did catch Yellow Ears, so had been expecting this. Then Mom brought the kittens to our back yard, and we couldn't believe our eyes. Their mom is Scarface, who is not a male, as we had thought !!!

So we have 2 sunny yellow kittens and a dark one who looks like mom. And we'll have to rename Scarface.

The kittens are very active. Note the 2 climbing the tree. It's easy to spot the yellow one, but the dark one kind of blends into the bottom of the tree.