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Mon, Sep 10, 12 at 19:51
| I cannot find a forum here or elsewhere for a "name that animal" so I am hoping you'll allow this here.
I have a birdhouse on my tree that has been inhabited by I do not know what. I have posted 2 pics elsewhere. Maybe someone can help. I am on Long Island. I do not think it is a squirrel, or at least not the common gray ones I usually have. I do not think flying red squirrels live here, but look at the underside of the belly in the one photo. It looks "webbed." http://gsa.freeshell.org/CIMG3377.jpg
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| Looks like a northern flying squirrel to me! Might be southern, depending on where in my you are. |
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- Posted by joy_division (My Page) on Mon, Sep 10, 12 at 20:17
| Great, thanks nankeen. I didn't think we had flying squirrels in NY, but that link was really helpful. I love wildlife, but I set this birdhouse up for birds, and they have used it the last 5 years. I don't want to kick the little guys out, but I do not like their cousins, the gray squirrel at all. they eat up my bulbs, digs hols all over my lawn, dig out newly plants in the spring. I HATE them. |
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| They are so cute! Perhaps you can buy another bird box and set it up elsewhere. The flying squirrels are nocturnal unlike the gray ones. I've also had so much damage from gray squirrels. They have wrecked shrubs, cut off branches and ruined an arborvitae. One removed the entire grafted portion of a Japanese maple. Bulbs and plants were dug up . We have flying squirrels but have not had a problem with them. |
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| Cool! I saw one on our bird feeder one night here in Georgia. It was sure a surprise. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Tue, Sep 11, 12 at 6:50
| There is a nature section of GW that contains name this animal forum. |
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