Flying Squirrels!
Jan. 22nd, 2021 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
Apparently we have northern flying squirrels that come to our bird feeder in the night - we've lived here 15 years, and we're still discovering new things that we share our space with! Last year we found out about the creeping voles, and now it's flying squirrels.
When we first saw it at 10.30pm last night, it was actually inside the bird feeder cage, munching away happily, but it retreated when we turned on the light. Apologies for the terrible quality of the pictures - it was dark, and the flash only goes so far.
My SO took some equally ropey video of it, which is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKycI7nKCeU
Kuro, of course, has probably known that northern flying squirrels come to the bird feeder in the night for 14 years. He just never bothered to tell us.
Update. Apparently we may actually have Humboldt's flying squirrels, as someone decided the Pacific coast ones were a separate species from the ones in the rest of North America a few years ago.
When we first saw it at 10.30pm last night, it was actually inside the bird feeder cage, munching away happily, but it retreated when we turned on the light. Apologies for the terrible quality of the pictures - it was dark, and the flash only goes so far.
My SO took some equally ropey video of it, which is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKycI7nKCeU
Kuro, of course, has probably known that northern flying squirrels come to the bird feeder in the night for 14 years. He just never bothered to tell us.
Update. Apparently we may actually have Humboldt's flying squirrels, as someone decided the Pacific coast ones were a separate species from the ones in the rest of North America a few years ago.
