Subject: Flying squirrel
Date: Feb 3 15:20:02 1999
From: CHARIS SNYDER-GILBERT - csnyderg at rexnet.net


I was interested to hear of your flying squirrel experiences. Although I am
far away from Washington - in northern Indiana - I would love to know more
about these beautiful little creatures. We have had one at our house the
past two years, arriving in February and remaining until about early August.
He visits the ears of corn that we have mounted on an oak tree just outside
our kitchen window. On a few occasions he has allowed us to get pretty
close to him, but usually we have not been able to do so. While we have
many birdfeeders on our property, we have never spotted him anywhere but on
the corn - but then, it's a bit difficult to see him in the evening! I
refer to "him" but of course have no idea whether our visitor is a male or
female, or whether in fact we always are seeing the same one.

Charis Snyder-Gilbert
Kendallville, Indiana
csnyderg at rexnet.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Logen <pdl at whidbey.net>
To: Tweeters <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Flying squirrel


>> Have any other Tweets hosted flying squirrels?
>>
>> Lee & Karen Rentz
>> Shelton, WA
>
>On occasion we have heard a thud against the north side of our house, and
>then a few seconds later a flying squirrel appears at our platform feeder
>around the corner on the west side of the house. The feeder is mounted on
>the side of the house just below a window, so we have watched the squirrels
>from just a couple feet as they eat the bird seed.
>
>A few years ago I got ambitious in the late winter and started cleaning our
>bird houses. When I opened the hinged bottom of the very first house, 2 or
>3 baby flying squirrels fell to the ground, along with their dry moss bed.
> After a quick photo, I replaced them as well as I could and abandoned my
>birdhouse cleaning efforts. I felt guilty about disturbing them, but had
>no clue they would be there.
>
>Dan Logen
>Stanwood Wa