Mild November Temperatures Results in January Babies!

Ever since yesterday’s shocking discovery, our technicians are on the look out for baby raccoons very early this year.

The mother raccoon would have had to mate in November in order to give birth to her babies this early in the year.

After realizing when this raccoon would have mated, I decided to research what the temperatures were in November 2021. The temperature was well above zero (around 8 degrees) for 21 out of the 30 days in November. The other 9 days in November only dropped to -1 overnight.

Although it is extremely early to be discovering litters of baby raccoons, there could still be more raccoons that mated back in November.

We look forward to see what is in store for the rest of 2022!