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Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« on: March 11, 2010, 02:31:42 PM »
My son saw one the other day while cutting down a tree. He was in it and the flying squirrel launched out of it right by him and hit him on the way out. I was surprised to hear of it but then I remembered that they are nocturnal which is why we don't see them much anyway.

According to the wildlife department, they live in most of our state.

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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2010, 02:33:51 PM »
Nope.  I have scene those black squirrels.  Not sure what type those are.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2010, 02:34:20 PM »
I've seen a few.  We had one soar over our campfire once in the Okanogan one deer season.  Saw one on the west side a few years back, but thats about it.

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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 03:39:21 PM »
Lots of them in the NE corner. Just at dusk they start coming out. Kinda neat to look at with their big eyes. Sometimes they get in the cabin but it's real easy to pick them up, just shine a flashlight in their eyes and they won't move.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2010, 03:57:41 PM »
Yep....seen a few in Eastern WA over 30 years ago.  I can't even remember where exactly but I do remember seeing the little buggers sailing out of the trees.  Pretty cool.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 03:58:03 PM »
Yep, used to see them about once or twice a year when I was falling timber.  I'm sure there were a lot I didn't see.  
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2010, 04:44:40 PM »
Funny thing - I usually hike in the dark when I am in the woods and there is a little light to see. This drives some of my buddies absolutely crazy but I like using my own eyesight whenever possible. Anyway, I hear squirrels all the time at night. I just don't shine them to see them. I guess now I can figure some of them to be flying squirrels since they are active at night.

I do know that I have seen Douglas squirrels active at night but usually only on dry warm nights and at higher elevations only.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2010, 04:50:00 PM »
Yes!  I had one of the black beady-eyed buggers come sailing off a branch above my head one day when I was burning brush at my folks house in Gig Harbor.  First and only one I've ever seen.  I walked right up to it before it took flight.  It glided all the way across our driveway into the wooded area behind our wood piles.  I ran over there and it scurried up a tree.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2010, 04:58:22 PM »
My dad used to have a pet flying squirrel way back when. He said it was a great pet.

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I've never seen one.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2010, 05:05:46 PM »
The horse barns I worked at on the Redmond plateau were notorious for flyers in the barn or tack room....crazy little freaks...lol

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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2010, 05:12:52 PM »
when I was a kid my stepdad who was a logger brought a pair of them home from work one day we kept them as pet's, I also saw one once when I was logging, they are very cool little critters.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2010, 05:18:01 PM »
I've seen only two.

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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2010, 05:52:54 PM »
Saw one when I was a kid in the pine trees behind our school.  I think I was in 5th or 6th grade.  We followed it around for the whole lunch hour (as best we could).  Was definitely a flying squirrel.
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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 05:54:22 PM »
Flying squirrels. Sounds like good target practice.

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Re: Have you seen flying squirrels in WA?
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2010, 05:55:02 PM »
Flying squirrels. Sounds like good target practice.

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