Yup. Only nocturnal squirrel.
Thanks. Between them and the fr$%#@ bears I'm going broke buying corn. Had to stop all feeders.
Are they getting into the feeder, or just eating it off the ground before the other critters get it? If they are getting it from the feeder, you might have to rig something so they can't grab on to it.
Are they getting into the feeder, or just eating it off the ground before the other critters get it? If they are getting it from the feeder, you might have to rig something so they can't grab on to it.
From the feeder. I need to install some sort of critter guard to prevent them to get it. Didn't seem them before so I was not aware of the problem. This is a new section of woods I didn't hunt last season.
Mr Lolo,
Had a tribe of flying squirrels in a shooting house several years ago. I had gone to check for wasp nests a few days before the season opened and when I got to the top of the ladder and opened the door, 5 or 6 of theses little critters were going everywhere at once. Even ran across one of my arms as I pulled up into the house. Opened a window and was able to run 'em off, they would jump and then glide to a nearby tree.
Sure enough on opening morning they were still calling it home. Had I not known what they were, they would probably have made me hurt myself in the dark. They had cut a hole in the seat of my swiveling office chair and taken up residence in the padding. Anytime you would get in that stand you had to tap on the chair to evacuate the flying squirrels, sometimes they wouuld leave and sometimes that would just sit up on the top plate and look at me with their big eyes.
A couple of weeks later, I noticed a bad odor when I was in the stand. Couldn't figure it out for a day or so but finally realized I had flattened one of them little fellers flat as a pancake inside of the chair. Dug him out and sailed him like a frisbee for one last flight.
The timber company cut that section of the lease and I haven't seen a flying squirrel since. Treefarmer
