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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 21:03:22 GMT -5
Flying Squirrel?
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Post by Dutch on Nov 10, 2014 21:07:59 GMT -5
Yes. Supposedly, at least I heard, they outnumber other squirrels. Not sure that's true.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2014 21:11:05 GMT -5
It's not too often that you see them. Been years for me.
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Post by Dutch on Nov 10, 2014 21:22:37 GMT -5
They are nocturnal so, we don't see them very often.
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Post by GlennD on Nov 11, 2014 6:42:16 GMT -5
Yep. Flying squirrel. Funny little.critters. A farm I used to hunt in Harford county MD had a bunch of them years ago. They kept me entertained on stand in the morning waiting for daylight. Inquisitive critters. They would run up the tree I was in, and get within inches of me and chatter. And then run up the tree and launch themselves out through the woods. I could hear them hit the ground and run back through the leaves and repeat.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 6:58:49 GMT -5
If they outnumber other species of squirrel then why isn't there an option to hunt them? Not sure how you would or how they taste just a thought.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 7:22:06 GMT -5
Had some around my camp years ago but haven't seen any for quite a while.
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Post by Dutch on Nov 11, 2014 16:40:06 GMT -5
If they outnumber other species of squirrel then why isn't there an option to hunt them? Not sure how you would or how they taste just a thought. Like I said, I had "heard" they outnumber others, but not confirmed. How do you hunt and who would hunt, a nocturnal squirrel?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 16:54:39 GMT -5
If they outnumber other species of squirrel then why isn't there an option to hunt them? Not sure how you would or how they taste just a thought. Like I said, I had "heard" they outnumber others, but not confirmed. How do you hunt and who would hunt, a nocturnal squirrel? Trap it?
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Post by redarrow on Nov 11, 2014 20:11:32 GMT -5
My son caught one in our attic in a small live trap. We were going to let it go after I got home from work that evening, but it died in the trap. He put water and food in the trap and set it in a dark spot, but maybe they are too high strung to be confined that long. We all felt bad about the little guy.
When I lived in Warren county, there was a hollow tree near one of my archery stands that had a family of flying squirrels living in it. Just a dusk they would climb out and scurry up the tree to launch themselves over to another tree and instantly climb and launch themselves again.
I never killed a buck from that stand, but I hunted there often-I think as much to see those squirrels as anything. I was always disappointed if they didn't come out before I had to climb back down.
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Post by wentzler on Nov 12, 2014 7:56:38 GMT -5
If you take a stand before first light, you sometimes hear them..and mistake them for bird song. They make a high-pitched squeaky 'tweeting' noise. The like a mixed forest interspersed with conifer, prefer cavity nesting, but are not above taking over an abandoned gray squirrel nest. Highly gregarious, colonies may number in the dozens of individuals. Once placed a tree stand in basswood tree backed into a hemlock. I failed to notice a cavity just above my head level on the "looking out, left side of the basswood. First morning I took that stand in the pre-dawn, I heard that 'tweeting squeaking' start all over in the trees around me..and a minute or so later had a flying squirrel actually touch my hat as it came in for a touch down..and scurried around the tree and into the cavity. This continued intermittenly until well light enough for me to see, and I think maybe eight or nine of the little guys sailed in there and entered that cavity.
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Post by feathers on Nov 12, 2014 8:41:42 GMT -5
Yep ...flying squirrel it is ....my farm has no shortage of them ....every see those hickory nuts and sorts with a hole usually nawed in the middle, it's them. Had a family of 5 in our attic years ago. Don't have cats anymore, but they used to leave parts of them in front of my back door ....their fur and little tails are soooo soft.
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