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May 28, 2009

Southern Flying Squirrel

Southern Flying Squirrel, originally uploaded by perlgurl.org.

Here's a night shot of a Southern Flying Squirrel.

This and another squirrel were huddling inside our screen door, but outside the glass door. We gave them the afternoon to stay out of the rain. They are noctural so they slept on the screen itself.

Unfortunately, dinner time came around and the squirrels didn't leave on their own, so we had to catch them in a pot and transport them into the forest. They have excellent homing abilities but we are hoping we have discouraged them enough so they don't try to move into our house... this one jumped and glided down about 7 feet, but it was very clumsy on the ground, hopping much like a kangaroo rat.

Posted by sorsha at May 28, 2009 8:24 PM