Flying squirrel on the bird feeder

January

I happened to shine a flashlight on one of the bird feeders last night and was very surprised to see a flying squirrel hanging onto it. In the dark and the falling snow, the critter was clamped upside down to the feeder, stuffing his mouth with sunflower seeds.

It’s apparently a somewhat common occurrence to find the gliding rodents helping themselves to birdseed. Check out this video I found on YouTube.

Here’s a whole Web site dedicated to the nocturnal creatures and my colleague Greg Clary’s column about them.

Speaking of squirrels, my days of keeping gray squirrels off the feeders seem to be over. I had been so proud of the record-PVC-pipe arrangement and it’s year-plus of success. But we now have a squirrel that seems to have super powers. He or she is able to leap upwards at a 45-degree angle from a tree onto one of the feeders.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 1:43 pm by Mike Risinit.
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