A couple weeks ago I heard the pitter-pat of tiny feet in the storage closets above my laundry/craft room. Autumn is here; time for the outdoor rodentia to move to their winter quarters.
Matthew set the live trap for us and baited it with a nice fresh mushroom. Now we have a second flying squirrel in the cage.
Click on the photo to see a very short video* of how a couple of flying squirrels get acquainted.
There was a fair amount of squawking and squabbling for the first few hours. Smokey had put a second nesting box in the cage so they could stay separated if they chose, but by the time the house cooled down in the evening they were snuggled up in one box. Cold weather makes good bedfellows.
For more background on our flying squirrel menagerie, see this post.
* Okay, the video may only be a few seconds long but somehow QuickTime insists that it has to be >1 meg. At least that is a considerably shorter download than the unedited, uncompressed 68 meg video clip I started with.
