We had a flying squirrel raiding our bird feeders regularly last winter. We have several feeders suspended from the soffit about 18" away from 2nd story windows. The little squirrel used to climb up the canes of a tall and very overgrown bush, and leap a couple of feet to the feeders to gorge itself on the sunflower seeds. The squirrel sometimes departed by leaping to the side, soaring away, and finding its way up the very tall evergreens; other times it retraced its steps to scurry back down the canes. We live in Little Canada in a wooded neighborhood. While I don't have any great fondness for the red, gray, and black squirrels that are always trying to steal birdseed, I always found it fun to watch the little flying squirrel come over and feed. They are out there but we're generally not aware of them because they're nocturnal.
Angie Klidzejs > Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:40:41 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: [mou-net] Bird Feeders > To: [email protected] > > 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 ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
