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Rescued from rest stop near Muleshoe by Wildlife rehabber in Amarillo. No known population of this species in Bailey County. Unknown how it got there. Recommended it be released to nearest in-state population, which is in San Angelo.

This was a project that trapped and released flying squirrels. Ordinarily, you wouldn't see them out flying around during the day.

This squirrel was released, climbed a tree and flew twice, landed on the ground, dug up a truffle and ate most of it, then climbed a tree again and ate the rest.

Quite a show!

California Biodiversity Week
Day 7
This is George, our resident ground squirrel. He has been here for years and we have an agreement that if I leave plenty of peanuts and apples out, he will leave my plants alone😂. He's a good boy and very entertaining to watch.

The underside is distinctly yellow, but this weasel doesn't have the facial markings of a Long-tailed weasel. A juvenile perhaps or is it a Short tailed Weasel?? My recollection is that the black tail tip was quite small.

What a special surprise! I had just gone in for my camera and stepped back out to find my bird of interest leaving, when a flying squirrel hopped through the rain across my wet deck. Even better than the bird! I quickly lost track of it, but it wasn’t long before I saw it again under cover of the porch roof. I was sitting on a tall chair, and when it dashed behind me, I turned and looked down to see TWO together back there. I spent three hours in total just sitting out there watching them as they frolicked around the porch, chasing each other, climbing on each other, snuggling close together as they groomed themselves, and eventually settling for naps. Each period of napping only lasted a few minutes before they’d get twitchy and scratchy and rearranged themselves, sometimes to settle back down, sometimes to dash across the porch. Eventually one darted out into the rain and puddles and disappeared down the driveway; the other remained, napping on the outer edge of the porch for another 40 minutes or so, though never still for very long. Finally that one made another circuit of the porch before venturing out into the rain, running the length of the deck and disappearing off the far edge.

They were too adorable, and one was a little bigger than the other. I understand it’s very unusual for them to be so active in the daytime, and for so long. I know very little about these guys except that they’re nocturnal, so I considered this a wonderful one-time experience and was glad I happened to be sitting on the porch at that time.

All the literature appears to state that
(1) H. sipora is only on Sipura Island, and reportedly has buffy underparts.
(2) the only flying squirrel on Siberut is Petinomys lugens.
However, our trip organizer (biologist Arif Setiawan (Wawan)) and site guides (Ismael and Vincent) were all aware that there were two species of flying squirrel on Siberut. This animal is similar to that posted for 2 days later - www.inaturalist.org/observations/242253250 - except this one lacks the white-tip to the tail, it is more buffy, albeit weakly, this one shows a tuft of bristles at the base of the ear.