Hello,

It is fall again, and unlike the past four years, I am no longer trapping. Yes even PhD field seasons come to an end. It feels strange.

Last summer and fall was very busy and I trapped lots of squirrels in both fragmented and contiguous plots. Numbers however, were much lower than in 2006 and 2007. I have am working on writing up my final results for the survival and movement analysis. One of the most exciting things that we found last year was the occurence of five double litters. This has not been reported before for flying squirrels.

Here is a picture of 3 baby flying squirrels found in a nest outside of Fundy National Park. They are about 40g in size (teenagers). A bit hard to hold on to!

Cheers,
Matt

Crew from 2007!

Truffles (some squirrel food) Picture by Dr. David Malloch