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Glider Tales - The place to share your stories

Here are some glider stories and images supplied by our glider network members. Do you have a short story you would like to share - use the form at the end to send us the details.

Gliders find good home
November 2011

We previously found a glider in a parrot nestbox at my mothers place

at Maleny in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. We then had several more glider, parrot, possum and bat boxes - 7 in all installed in March. Today we had them inspected and found Squirrel Gliders in two separate boxes as well as a glider nest in at least one other.

Gliders may have used other boxes at some point but they were inhabited variously by bees, lorikeets and possums which stopped us looking closely.

sent in by
Paul Barnes, Maleny
Gliders return to Fox Gully
22 March 2011
Squirrel Glider Fox Gully

Alan Moore’s daughter was the first to react, “Something just flew past!” Our neighbours were enjoying a quiet evening on their deck when a Squirrel Glider landed on a Tallowwood nearby.

Alan has a passion for photography, so we now have our first photos of Gliders returning to our bushcare site.

Further details: www.foxgully.wordpress.com

Image courtesy Alan Moore

sent in by
Michael Fox
Glider in the rain
23 December 2010

During a very wet night as we walked outside to see friends off, I saw what I first thought was a baby possum in our Silky Oak.

On having a closer look I could see it had a fat fluffy tail and a sharper face. it scampered up the tree just like squirels I had seen in Canada and on checking the net found that we are within the range of both the squirel and sugar gliders.

It was the first time I had seen one in all my years in the bush.

sent in by
Des Limkin from Moura Qld
Sugar Glider blossums in Elanora
25 November 2010
We still have magnificent sugar gliders visiting our blossums in suburban Elanora.  Originally designed with wonderful flora habitat corridors, many trees have since been felled from our estate, however still the sugar gliders survive in spite of this interference.

It's just amazing to see them briefly right on dusk, and hear their beautiful 'chirp chirps'. Sometimes when there are special blooms and insects, we will find them foraging for hours amongst the leaves.

We can all live together if we take care, and try to remember that our beautiful trees have many visitors, and are an important part of our local ecosystem - our beautiful wildlife cannot just go and find a new area.
sent in by
Linda from Elanora
Fantastic feathertails
11 January 2010
When conducting one of the regular spotlighting trips at a release site for rehabilitated wildlife this Feathertail glider was spotted.

The feathertail sat on the tree long enough for a few shots to be taken before darting off higher into the canopy.

We have also regularly seen Squirrel gliders at this location and many other species of native wildlife.
sent in by
Natalie from Lockyer Valley
Sugar Gliders in Central Queensland
17 December 2009

In 1968 we were working in Central Queensland and took the kids to see the big tractors pulling brigalow scrub north of Clermont.  

When stepping over a pile of fallen timber I heard a strange sound and found a sugar glider. I put her inside my shirt and Suzie was our pet for 3 years. We were living in tents and she was free to roam at night but each morning she would be under Craig's pillow. He was just 2 years old and carried her around in his pocket.  

Sadly the station cat killed her one night while the manager was looking after her - he accidentally locked the cat inside with Suzie.

sent in by
Audrey from Hervey Bay
Backyard Glider Nestboxes
14 October 2009
We have a glider nestbox in our back garden and I managed to capture a few pictures - the quality isn't very good as it was at dusk but you can clearly see the squirrel glider tail.

There is a family that we often see - and one night well after dark we heard a very faint call - and eventually spotted a very adventurous young glider, no more than about 200mm nose to tail who had been left at home, and had ventured out on his own.

We also found that they like to gnaw at the wattle and lick the sap from the trunk.
sent in by
Tim from Ferny Hills, Qld

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