Flying squirrel spotted
Yesterday we spend the morning re-arranging our living room. We decided that we wanted to be sitting further away from the TV than we were, so this meant major re arranging.
It took us several hours and several connotations to get what we wanted. We then decided we needed a rug in the centre of the room, so went out in search of one. I found one I liked, but it was too small and cost a whopping $1200, no way were we paying that sort of money for a rug.
Finally we found a couple we liked and settled for one which was $400, still expensive, but it is nice and fits in well.
Whilst doing this we watched with amusement the exploits of one of our resident squirrels. We have four squirrels, which frequent the back garden daily, and one who seems to have claimed our front garden as his. If any other squirrel or birds lands on the trees, ground etc he immediately chases them off. He also seems to have claimed one of the bird boxes as his as he has chewed out the hole a little bigger and often sits in it with his head poking out and looks very funny.
Anyway, yesterday he decided it was nut burying day and spent ours digging large holes at the bottom of the tree and burring sunflower seeds, one at a time. Why he didn’t take several seeds at once to the hole we have no idea, but he must have dug five different hole and placed a hundred seeds in each. He will either have a good supply of food later or we will have a spectacular sunflower display in the summer!
Later in the day he decided that he didn’t have enough nuts and seeds in his area and proceeded to run to the back garden, run up the tree, take a monkey nut from the feeder, run back to the front garden and hide the stolen nut under those he already had in his feeder and tray. It was hilarious watching him burying a nut under other nuts. He is quite a character and we love him.
On the subject of squirrels, we have found we have a new visitor to the garden. Well he may be an old visitor, but we have only just spotted him. My husband had mentioned seeing a squirrel in the feeder well after dark, but this confused us as squirrels do not come out after dark. However, after lots of research and standing with lights and binoculars etc we have finally identified our night time visitor. It is a flying squirrel.
Flying squirrels are nocturnal and have a flat bushy tail and a squatter nose than red squirrels, they are grey in colour and appear to glide between trees. Apparently not many people see them because they only come out at night, but we have seen him several times now, and he is now used to the light on him and no longer flees when we approach him. We are hoping to get a picture soon.
