Maybe I've talked about this before, but a kid in our elementary school did a science fair project on the black squirrels of Arlington County. Apparently black is a dominant color and when a black squirrel mates with a gray one, the litter will be black. Washington National zoo had a bunch of black squirrels from Canada, but some escaped, and have been moving westward along the Route 66 corridor at a rate of about a quarter mile per year. You used to rarely see black squirrels in the neighborhood, but now they are very common.

we also had a handful of white squirrels in the park where I do my urban trail blazing, but I haven't seen one there in a couple years. I think their line died out.

we used to get back squirrels with bright red tails at times when I was living in Toronto, not common, but not really rare either. Quite startling looking though.

http://retrieverman.files.wordpress....pg?w=500&h=366

I understand there are a number of towns that are havens to large pockets of white squirrels

(why am I now picturing bloody white boomer.... and singing christmas carols *gods my brain makes weird connections)

please do.;)

In Ottawa, where I grew up, there were thousands of black, red, and grey squirrels. They were everywhere. I never saw a black with a red tail, though, even in Toronto (four years there). Pity. I still find it strange that PA has so few squirrels, relatively speaking.

I've never seen a white squirrel. Does anyone have pics?

WTF is a Reptor?

Maybe you could've said velociraptor or something?. Reptor isn't a word.

I'll try to remember to look around.

There was also a mottled squirell, like he was white but had brown/black spots more like a dog. Only pic I had of him he was deader n' hell...don't know what happened to it.

The eagle cam is awesome today, with the sun shining.

:eaglesmilie:

REPTAR!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptar

Oh, so it was Rugrats writers who couldn't spell. My bad.