Many of these pictures are squares, but some are not. I hope you will forgive me, but some pictures just couldn’t fit into a square and they deserved to be grouped.
GLIDING AND LANDING FLYING SQUIRRELS!
I actually got something like form and almost details on the squirrels this time around. The camera took its usual 1020 pictures, about 650 of which showed nothing but a moving feeder or such a tiny bit of squirrel it wasn’t worth processing.
In the end, I got 250 pictures of flying squirrels and another 200 pictures of raccoons. I don’t know why I got better pictures this time, but amazingly I did.
And yes, I am going to show them to you.
I thought this was a neat way to really show the shape of the squirrel (square!)
Above, three squares, three not-squares
It does take me an awfully long to process the pictures. The quality isn’t very good and my goal is to try and extract quality when it’s essentially invisible. Even though I didn’t personally push the shutter on the camera, I did a lot of work on the pictures and figure I’m allowed to affix my name.
You can see the wings and the squirrel! Cool, isn’t it. (Another square)
But, it is a camera trap. If I wasn’t afraid of what the rain and wind might do to my better cameras — which are technically waterproof but I’m not sure exactly HOW waterproof — I’d try to do them with my better camera and lenses.
I’m not that trusting. The wind could blow the tripod over. A raccoon could come and investigate the camera and do strange and terrible things with his tiny little hands. So for now, I’ll just pass and use the cheap but waterproof trail camera.
And in honor of Earth Day, I will feed my animals until I can’t get seed for them anymore. These little squirrels eat a LOT of seed every night … pounds of it! Soon, their favorite seeds will be unavailable and they will have to make do on less yummy treats. I’m sure they will manage to adapt. I’m not sure, but I think I now have dozens of them gliding home every night.
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that last image it incredible, as are all but that one, wow
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A squarrel
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A FLYING squarrel?
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You know I never knew these creatures existed until you came out with your photos.
Leslie
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Until I turned on the porch light one night, neither did I. Most people don’t know they exist unless they nest in their attic or they have feeders and one day, wonder how come they fill the feeders at night and it’s all gone in the morning?
I first looked up “birds that feed at night” and discovered other than owls and some hawks, none of them feed at night. Raccoons were always possible — but what I saw were white and furry, but they flew. I have never heard of flying raccoons, so what were they? This was deeply confusing.
Then I discovered we have three different kinds of flying squirrels in this region. Most wooded areas have at least one kind and they live all over the world, too. Who knew?
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There are still many wonders in this world…..
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Plenty of squares for me not to notice the rectangular shape of the others 🙂 and what a great collection to have
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These came out much better than usual. I almost got something like details in some of them. The wings look gossamer in the dark, but finally, you can see the wings wrapped around a tiny, white squirrel. We also get some darker squirrels, though they are all related and some of them interbreed.
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amazing
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