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Every time I hike by an old pileated woodpecker nest cavity I always scratch on the tree to see what might be in there. Pileated woodpeckers build a new nesting cavity each year and the old ones are used by owls, ducks and flying squirrels. I scratched on this one a few years ago and look what peeked out.

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A second flying squirrel looked out.

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A third.

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Then there were four.

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What makes cute things cute. Five flying squirrels looking out at the same time.

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These aren’t babies. These photos were taken in January. They are adult flying squirrels. They live together during winter months to share body heat. When scratching on this one aspen tree twelve flying squirrels eventually came out to check me out. They all went right back in.

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With the mild weather we are still having some great sunsets along the shore. This one started with a nice sun pillar.

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After the sun set the clouds turned just a beautiful red.

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