We are doing the Project FeederWatch with Cornell this winter, and of course as it starts all of the birds seem to just know to disappear. But last night around 11:00 PM we had an amazing, although non-bird, surprise at our feeder. We discovered that a Flying Squirrel has found our feeder and can easily jump (fly) to it from a nearby tree. It was amazing to watch him jump to the platform feeder, grab some food, jump back to the tree, hide or eat the food, and repeat again and again. First time we have ever seen a Flying Squirrel here, and I didn't think that we actually had any or even the right habitat here in Bloomington!
Bird feeders can teach you new things about your environment all the time, even when you don't expect it. And for something bird related I went to Hyland Lake yesterday, but the lake was almost fully frozen and the only ducks I could see were Mallards and a Bald Eagle on the island in the lake. Ben Harste Bloomington, MN ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
