Flying Squirrel

Wildlife at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury

Sighting Date:

December 1, 2012

Two flying squirrels at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote wildlife camera by Craig Smith.

A white-tailed deer at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote wildlife camera by Craig Smith.

A red squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote wildlife camera by Craig Smith.

A flying squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote wildlife camera by Craig Smith.

Craig Smith used an automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph flying squirrels, a red squirrel and white-tailed deer at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Wildlife at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury

Sighting Date:

October 22, 2011

A flying squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Craig Smith.

A fisher squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Craig Smith.

A mouse at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Craig Smith.

Raccoons at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Craig Smith.

A raccoon at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed by Craig Smith.

Craig Smith used an automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph a flying squirrel, fisher, mouse, and several raccoons at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Fisher and Flying Squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest

Sighting Date:

September 28, 2011

A fisher at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote camera by Craig Smith.

A flying squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury, photographed with a remote camera by Craig Smith.

Craig Smith used a remotely triggered wildlife camera to photograph a fisher and a flying squirrel at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Flying Squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough

Sighting Date:

April 10, 2011

A flying squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough, photographed with a remote camera by Bob Moore.

Bob Moore used his remote wildlife camera to photograph a flying squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough.

Flying Squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough

Sighting Date:

April 5, 2011

A flying squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough, photographed by Bob Moore.

Bob Moore used his remote wildlife camera to photograph a flying squirrel at SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation in Northborough.

Flying Squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest

Sighting Date:

June 5, 2011

Craig Smith used a remote wildlife camera to photograph this flying squirrel at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Flying squirrel and Weasel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury

Sighting Date:

May 23, 2011

A flying squirrel at SVT's Memorial Forest, photographed with a remote camera by Craig Smith.

A weasel at SVT's Memorial Forest, photographed with a remote camera by Craig Smith.

Craig Smith used a remote wildlife camera to photograph a flying squirrel and a weasel at SVT's Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Flying Squirrel at SVT's Upper Mill Brook in Wayland

Sighting Date:

April 8, 2011

A flying squirrel at SVT's Upper Mill Brook Conservation Area in Wayland, photographed with a remote camera by Marie Goeritz.

Marie Goeritz used her remote wildlife camera to photograph this flying squirrel at SVT's Upper Mill Brook Conservation Area in Wayland.

Flying Squirrel at SVT's Upper Mill Brook in Wayland

Sighting Date:

April 3, 2011

Marie Goeritz used her remote wildlife camera to photograph this flying squirrel at SVT's Upper Mill Brook Conservation Area in Wayland.

Flying Squirrel in Framingham

Sighting Date:

December 3, 2010

A flying squirrel in Framingham, by Robert Martin

Robert Martin, of Edgell Rd in Framingham offers the following account of his encounter with a flying squirrel:

"While cleaning my gutters at approximately 3:15 pm on Friday, I spotted this critter, a Northern Flying Squirrel on my roof. In my yard, I have gray squirrels, red squirrels, field mice, voles, and moles and now, flying squirrels. While standing on my ladder, two stories from the ground, I watched this critter hop and run from one end of my roof looking for a way to escape. He finally took a desperate plunge down the gutter down spout, which probably shook him up, and gave me the opportunity to go in the house to grab my camera.

I didn't know what I was looking at until I indentified it on the internet. Big black eyes, field mouse like head, flat furry tail, tan upper body fur, light biege belly fur...well just look at the photos..."

Flying Squirrel in Wayland

Sighting Date:

December 3, 2009

Jim Santamaria photographed this flying squirrel in Wayland.

Flying Squirrels in Wayland

Sighting Date:

February 9, 2009

David Hatfield Jr. reports a pair of flying squirrels have been nightly visitors to his home on Plain Rd. in Wayland, eating bird seed at his feeder.

Sighting Date:

November 18, 2008

Jack Russel writes that he saw a flying squirrel at Russell's Garden Center in Wayland: "I saw a flying squirrel at 6PM while closing up the store on Wenesday evening. It flew right in front of me, landed on a tree about four feet away, looked at me, scampered up to the top of the tree and glided off. There have been several other sightings after dark around the property, but it was moving so fast, just a grey blur, that no one has had a real strong ID on it."