Well, I said I hadn't seen any in several years. But last Friday we had about 20 of wife's former high school classmates at the house for a party. It was a warm night and a bunch of the guys were out on the back deck. Had all the lights on, and I caught movement out of the corner of my eye at the bird feeder hanging from a tree limb just a foot or two off the deck, five feet away from where I was standing and talking. Looked a little more closely, and there was a flying squirrel jumping back and forth from the tree trunk to the feeder, reaching in and grabbing a sunflower seed, and leaping back to the trunk to eat it. He was there much of the evening, and since then we've seen at least two of them. They're back! (If they ever left.)
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