Rob, id imagine you expirience critters kinda regular climbing poles? them flying squirrels are neat...used to see them regularly coonhunting at one spot thats now posted and cant hunt....amazing little animals...

i can relate to your story...i was doing a wood duck project...landowner i was working for/with had boxes up that werent maintained...he had a JD Gator so we loaded it up with tools and such, and a SMALL homeade flimsy alumanum ladder. bad news kinda ladder. i never thought to wear my harness...that would been a brilliant idea...all the boxes were higher than the small ladder. im on the top rung of this flimsy ladder...hole to the entrance of the duck box was about face level..a little lower..i was undoing the cables to take it down when i saw a flash of SOMETHING jump out of the hole and run up the tree...i screamed like a girl and about fell off the ladder...looked up and theres a gray squirrel barking his head off at me..the old timer that i was with was ROLLING...he loved it. he was yelling about how he wished he had a camera coz it was halarious how scared i was and how i screamed....i saw nothing funny about it lol.....so i calm down and go back to work....surely cant be more than one in that dang box....sure enough another one scared me worse...think it actually used my jacket to climb the tree lol...them suckers had that box absolutely FULL of leaf litter and acorns...it was amazing.....i felt terrible leaving them out in the cold(waited till like feb to do the project so we could use the Gator...ground had to be frozen to get to the boxes....



im pumped....weather looks amazing for Saturday!!! and i get to head home 4 hours earlier friday my last 2 classes are canceld!! i need to do some more broadhead shooting...i shot this weekend and dont know if it was the fact i was cracked out on cold meds or if something is wrong, but they werent flying as great as they were....been shooting at my buddies with FPs and its been shooting great...so im glad i get to go home early...i'll have time to verify flight and/or fine tune it....though i had atleast 4 arrows ready to go...probably fine i know that day time cold medicane kills me....