Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:52:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Colleen and Matt Troxler Subject: Re: Flying Squirrel nest boxes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From what I have seen, they do indeed spend winters in deeper cavities (or man-made screech boxes), and congregate in decent-sized groups. We had at least 4 flying squirrels at a time in our screech owl box last year; and they all left by mid-May. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Mumford To: Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Flying Squirrel nest boxes > Any who care - flying squirrels have nested and roosted in my standard > bluebird boxes for years. They shred up bark and pretty much fill up a box > and bury themselves in it. > > For whatever reason, they are not in there all year. I think they must > hibernate in deeper cavities. > > BTW, I live in the woods and the BB houses are not ideally located for those > birds. Chickadees and Titmice are the usual occupants. > > Bob Mumford > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================