Yes she, happily cleaning herself wrapped in garbage, as one does.

I don’t want to speculate as to the fate of the baby, the corrugated sheet metal had to be moved and it was only a few minutes after I had removed it that we heard the squeaking. Nature is gonna nature, either the squirrel will survive, or a predator will get an easy meal. The thing is, within the family, we will probably ask “is that the squirrel all grown up?” every time we see a squirrel up there for the next few years. I think that’s the best outcome we can hope for.

El Dorado county in California, just north of Placerville, on a hill above the banks of the South fork of the American River.

It had a long worm-like tail. If it was smaller I would have thought mouse, but the leading theories are squirrel or mole.