Squirrel Gliders visiting the Bird Feeders

For the last two nights we have witnessed a Squirrel Glider in different bird feeders at Jarowair. This was the first one I saw down low (which is a female).  She looks to have been checking out the feeder for left over apple cores from the night before.

We have been putting our some apple cores and fruit & vegetable off cuts in various locations for the wild brushtail possums as supplement food during the drought, but looks like the gliders have cottoned onto it as well! 

Squirrel Gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis) are noctural fliding marsupials that live in tree hollows. Their diet consists of leaves, flowers, bark, insects and native fruits where available.

J.G.