Flying squirrels
I've only encountered them twice, lived all my 44 years in Edmonton area. Once, when I was about twelve years old, I climbed up a tree in the NSR valley to look in a magpies nest and a squirrel jumped out and soared to the ground! I then pushed open the grass nest , which had been built inside the twig nest ,and there was about four young ones staring back at me! They where fairly large at this time and looked like an adult only smaller! Then last year, while driving in Lamont county at night, I saw another one soar down from the treetops and land on the road in front of my truck!! It sat there, in plain sight, as I tried to awaken my wife who was sleeping in the passenger seat,but of course, it ran off before she saw it. She still thinks that I was seeing things, haha!
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