Southern Flying Squirrel

• Mix of gray and brown with lighter, cream colored, underbelly
• Flattened tail and large black eyes
• Nocturnal
• Found across the eastern United States
• Nests in trees, but will also enter homes and nest in the attic or exterior walls
• Eats nuts, acorns, fruit, seeds, berries, insects, and fungi
• Has a flap of skin that runs between it’s front and rear feet which it extends when it jumps;  This allows them to glide, not actually fly, about 20-30 feet.