{"id":3667,"date":"2015-05-22T22:34:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2015-05-25T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T00:07:33","slug":"flying-squirrel-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/flying-squirrel-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Squirrel Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah was startled by a bat in the outhouse tonight. Or she <i>thought<\/i> it was a bat. Then she discovered a nest in the corner with four baby northern flying squirrels! This is cool, of course, but we&#8217;re also sad that we have disturbed the nest. Our best guess, based on Internet research, is that they are around 20 days old &#8212; thick fur, but eyes not open yet. We&#8217;re hoping they can survive this disruption.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4895.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" title=\"Flying Squirrel Nest\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4895.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nest &#8212; they made good use of a roll of toilet paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4894.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" title=\"Flying Squirrel 1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4894.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">You can&#8217;t quite see the patagium (&#8220;wing&#8221; membrane), but it was clearly visible as they moved.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4893.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" title=\"Flying Squirrel 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_4893.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cozy! (You can see its patagium in this picture, a folded bit of flesh under its belly.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Update: <\/b>We were relieved to find that mama squirrel took her kiddos to a safer nest overnight. The outhouse is no place to raise a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah was startled by a bat in the outhouse tonight. Or she thought it was a bat. Then she discovered a nest in the corner with four baby northern flying squirrels! This is cool, of course, but we&#8217;re also sad that we have disturbed the nest. Our best guess, based on Internet research, is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/flying-squirrel-nest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flying Squirrel Nest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-yellow-cabin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoccoroy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}