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There is a one-eyed squirrel that feeds on my windowsill along with the birds. I've used the soap X on window to deter birds flying into the window as someone on AWAD suggested, and so far, so good. The one-eyed squirrel amazes me with its ability to get to the windowsill, for the only way over is to get on the house rooftop from a white oak out back, make a very wide leap onto the roof--and this squirrel is not asapanic-- cross it, jump down onto the porch roof, and then up to my windowsill, about a three-foot jump, quite a small jump, surely, compared to the others.
From where I type, the sill is a bit too low to see the little birds--just their heads--so I've set up a thick glass box about three inches high and four inches square on the ledge of the sill to better view feeding birds. I hope the squirrel won't be interested in it because I've put its favorite piles of sunflower seeds to the right of the glass box. But squirrels are curious creatures, so it may move to the box and feed there a while out of curiosity. If it finally realizes that there are few sunflower seeds there, then perhaps the birds will feed on the box away from the squirrel at the other end.
Note to et': I'll send you a photo today of the one-eyed squirrel.
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Sorry, left out an 's': assapanic.
It's a term referring to squirrels that fly.
Edit: Specifically: American flying squirrels.
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>Note to et': I'll send you a photo today of the one-eyed squirrel. great! though I won't get my ass in a panic about it... 
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Edit: Specifically: American flying squirrels.Thanks for the new word, WW! You gotta be a little more specific, though: there are two kinds of American <ahem> flying squirrels. no, not country and western
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The assapanic is Sciuropterus volucella or Pteromy's volucella, one and the same American flying squirrel. I don't know about t'other one you're talking about, AnnaS, so please broadify my deductination.
Thank, ET, for posting the One Eye. The eye in the photo is the one that no longer works. He's a very feisty squirrel who growls when others approach his seed pile. Gotta be a male. Just gotta be.
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Just because your squirrel grunts does not necessarily mean that he is a male. I know some females who grunt. Try this simple experiment... Note for three days the direction that "One Eye" is looking while he feeds. Record these observations. Then after three days if you find that "One Eye" directs his good eye towards the sky in look out for deadly hawks, then he is a female. Conversely. If "One Eye only pretends to feed, and is oblivious to deadly hawks, and has his one good big brown eye focused on you in admiration, then "One Eye" is a male and you may call him Tom. _____________________________________________________
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One Eye keeps the good eye toward the grove always, and there is a hawk that feeds there.
AnnaS (or anyone who knows): What is the other type of American flying squirrel that you mentioned? Thanks for providing that genus and species for our *most accurate record here.
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