Raptor Cams!

[glatt]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Yeah, I was also thinking it's been a while since I've seen a white squirrel. My town and surrounding towns were lousy with white squirrels. Maybe they live more in town.

Everyone thinks they're albino but they're not. There wouldn't be hoardes of them, then.

And there are black squirrels near Lake Erie.

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.

[Ocean's Edge]

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.



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)

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Ocean's Edge

Oooooooooo footfootfoot ... would you mind if I shared that with the folks at the Best Western Denver South Hotel and Dinosaur Museum ?

.... it's just the sorta thing that will make em GIGGLE

please do.

[orthodoc]

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?

[infinite monkey]

WTF is a Reptor?

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

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

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?

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.

[infinite monkey]

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

:eaglesmilie:

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

WTF is a Reptor?

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

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

[infinite monkey]

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