…and set out a second food bowl.

With that and shelter both above and below deck, they should be good for now. I hope I didn’t scare them away.

But at least three kittens. Likely four. Maybe more were down below. And mom. I took the opportunity to set up my trail camera I had inside the house (for downloading and fresh batteries - bad timing), cleared snow and leaves off a part of the deck, refilled the heated water dish…

Then another head popped out and the rest of the kitten followed suit and tore off the other way to the chokecherry tree and disappeared under the deck. The first kitten I saw inside the shelter may have been the earlier fluffy one but I don’t think so. It all happened so fast.

Then chaos. I think the fluffy one followed suit. I stepped toward the shelter and saw another one inside who popped out crazy fast, turned and ran between the shelter and house, then under the deck.

Ope. There was mom (young!), who zipped under the deck. Then a light colored kitten popped out wondering where mom went, then saw me and followed mom.