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are back in the blue bird nesting box. This makes the third year so I guess they get a homestead exemption from here on out. They make good neighbors so I don't mind.
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Time for me to make another trip to Colemanland, as I've never seen flying squirrels before. I've seen you Mickey, and you're worth the trip alone!
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Mr. Coleman, do Flying Squirrels look the same as say, Pine, Fox or Gray Squirrels, or are they markedly different?
I'm not sure if we even have them here in the Ohio Valley..?
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Very soft delicate fur. The one that was in our home had fur in a herringbone pattern.
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Just be glad their outside and not in your house. Their cute, but nasty as rats. They crap and urinate everywhere. We have had to eradicate them the past 2 years from the cabin at our hunting club.
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are back in the blue bird nesting box. This makes the third year so I guess they get a homestead exemption from here on out. They make good neighbors so I don't mind. When I lived on Long Island I used to see them gliding from tree to tree. Pretty cool to watch.
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Mr. Coleman, do Flying Squirrels look the same as say, Pine, Fox or Gray Squirrels, or are they markedly different?
I'm not sure if we even have them here in the Ohio Valley..? It's just plain ol' 'Mickey' or 'Mick'. Thanks. I'll try to post a picture I have of one in the box. They don't take well to disturbances so I probably won't open the box again. I was checking to see if blue birds had laid eggs and one jumped out and ran up the light pole. I hated that I disturbed them again.
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Here's a picture that I took last summer. They have a stubby little tail and are really pretty small.
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We have them here as I have found them frequently in Matern cubbies--but I have never seen one alive. I keep looking.
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We have them here as I have found them frequently in Matern cubbies--but I have never seen one alive. I keep looking. The reason many poeple never see them is they are largely nocturnal
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We have them here as I have found them frequently in Matern cubbies--but I have never seen one alive. I keep looking. The reason many poeple never see them is they are largely nocturnal It was a complete surprise to me when I discovered they were in this area. I'd never heard of any in my lifetime.
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supposedly they are in Montana but never seen one but we dont have a ton of nut trees......used to keep sugar gliders which are a small Australia possum that acts like a flying squirrel though has a different diet....
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These pesky Ebert's out here eat the lining of the new tips/shoots on ponderosas - usually way up there - leave the ground around the tree littered with new growth chewed off. They fly too - vertically, in one direction. Well, maybe call it coasting - or falling.
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I muzzleloader hunted out of my buddy's camp up in Sinnemahoning Pa one time. They had a big feeder hanging off the side of the cabin on it's second story catwalk. The flying squirrels would be on it every night. They'd glide into the feeder, you'd see it jiggle a bit outside the window, and they'd feed to their heart's content. Interesting little critters, and I enjoyed watching them very much.
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We have them here as I have found them frequently in Matern cubbies--but I have never seen one alive. I keep looking. The reason many poeple never see them is they are largely nocturnal It was a complete surprise to me when I discovered they were in this area. I'd never heard of any in my lifetime. I was surprised to hear about them down your way too. I've only encountered them in the Coastal Plain over Charleston/Savannah way.
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Got this one on a trail cam this yr.
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They remind me of our red squirrels in size and shape except the head is rounder and the fur is much softer.
I've mistakenly killed 2 flying squirrels in my life and still kick my butt for it. Now I make darned sure that what I'm targeting is a red squirrel and not a flying squirrel.
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In the middle of one night in the late 1930s, Dad heard an intermittent series of soft bumps back in the spare bed room. When he carried a lamp back there, he saw nothing moving. When he went back to bed, he heard the bumps again.
So he went back there without the lamp and just sat waiting there in the moon-lit bed room.
After a while, a flying squirrel � which had apparently dropped down the chimney � ran across the bed and launched itself toward the glass upper half of the door to the side porch. (The full moon in a cloudless sky made the outside almost as bright as day.)
The bump � bump were the squirrel hitting the door glass and the floor.
Dad opened the side-porch door and screen, left 'em open, and went back to bed.
No more soft bump � bump.
"Flying" squirrels are so nocturnal that they're seldom seen even where they're relatively plentiful.
That's too bad � because they're about the cutest little critters that we have in the wild. And I don't know of any way that they harm anything or bother anybody.
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