I'll take some rat of the tree! Good eats.

My friend from Jr. High and I used to shoot and hunt a lot. After we got old we continued, up until about 10 years ago, our tradition of the Thanksgiving day hunt. We always had a great time going after rabbit and squirrel. One Thanksgiving we were out doing the squirrel thing and taking any hapless rabbit that might pop up...but mainly we were after squirrel.

It was early morning in a pretty good size forest with dew on the knee high grass that lived in a forest type environment. We heard and then saw a squirrel hit a limb directly above us in a big tree. I guess that limb was 40 feet in high. We watched it run along the limb going away from us. Took aim...wondering where the hell is that thing was going to go at the end of the limb...then...it just leaped off the end...what they F. It spread all four legs out and start gliding to the ground.

We were frozen in awe of what we were seeing and didn't shoot even though we had shotguns at the ready. We just watched it glide through the air. As it approached the tall grass in its descent...it skimmed along just above the grass for fifteen or twenty feet before it disappeared in the grass. While it was skimming along the top of the grass its flight kicked up the dew at the tops of the grass and made visible a perfect double wing tip vortex of dew.

Without a doubt the most memorable squirrel sightings of our lifetimes. It was so impressive we never even shot at the thing. Just put or shotguns down and looked at each other. Grunted a few man words and moved on. Only flying squirrel I ever saw. Most impressive.