Despite the bits of snow we're getting this week, it's Spring, and Szechwan (Pepper) knows it! He always sings his Hunka Hunka Burning Love song, but lately he just can't get enough of the nest building. So I accommodate him with bits of timothy hay. I've discovered that if I give him the grass every other day, he gets so desperate for it by that second day that I can open the Finsterium door to take a picture without him freaking out too much.

That sounds mean, doesn't it? This tiny little creature loooooves his nest building, and I withhold the grass just so I can take a few pictures. Bad pictures, I might add. Well don't worry, now that I have my pictures, I'll stop torturing him. Grass every day now! The wider picture is a little better; you can pop up a bigger version.

While Szechwan (Pepper) is the busiest, all of the Finsters are building nests. Ginger, who is in the background of the wide photo, also seems to like to play with the timothy, and eat it. There are some stalks of grass with seed heads still attached. I can't tell if there are any seeds left, but Ginger likes to look for them. She'll stand on one end of the piece of grass, and pick at the seed head on the other end.

One day, Ginger and Szechwan (Pepper) were fighting over the same piece of grass. Szechwan (Pepper) took a piece of grass up to his nest box, but since the end still sticking out of the box had a seed head, Ginger snatched it right out and started looking for seeds. So Szechwan (Pepper) stole it back, and took it back into the nest box. But since the end still sticking out of the box had a seed head, Ginger....

Well, you get the idea. Good times!