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In my neck o' the woods, it's babby rabbits. The kids discover a nest with babbies. They're thrilled. I tell them the momma goes out foraging and leaves the babbies 'til sundown. I cross my fingers and hope hope hope she comes back.
She doesn't come back, having been picked off by one of the pair of hawks that nest in the big cottonwood by the creek.

So the kids cry and won't go to sleep and want to raise the babby rabbits ...

We did that more than once. It went the usual way: the runt died and the kids had to cope with the death; the others thrived, and the kids had to feed them multiple times a day and check on them constantly, etc., and finally release them into the woods behind our place.

Squirrels in PA are all black. In Ottawa, long ago, there were red, gray, AND black squirrels. More than I've ever seen, since. I've been disappointed in the mid-Atlantic squirrel census.