Here’s another kind-of-Christmass-y shot. When you enter the town of Olney, Illinois, you’re greeted by a sign that says welcome to the home of the white squirrels. The little guy above is one of those famous locals. I actually saw quite a few of them running around Olney’s suburban streets. This guy was munching on some twigs and berries in a park in the town center. You can see that he has blue eyes and isn’t a true albino, but rather a color variant of the grey squirrel. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/400th of a second
Wonderful shot, Sean! The white coloration in the squirrel is complimented by the pastel blue, green and pink in the background. This image says, “softness counts” and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think snow.
Beautiful! Where I now live, up near Cape Cod, the most common squirrels are black. I had grown up thinking that all squirrels were gray. So easy to assume that what you know is all there is…
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Here’s another kind-of-Christmass-y shot. When you enter the town of Olney, Illinois, you’re greeted by a sign that says welcome to the home of the white squirrels. The little guy above is one of those famous locals. I actually saw quite a few of them running around Olney’s suburban streets. This guy was munching on some twigs and berries in a park in the town center. You can see that he has blue eyes and isn’t a true albino, but rather a color variant of the grey squirrel.
So cool.
Wonderful shot, Sean! The white coloration in the squirrel is complimented by the pastel blue, green and pink in the background. This image says, “softness counts” and it doesn’t take a lot of imagination to think snow.
—– Last of house of York
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—– Blue eyed irony .
Would this squirrel be considered leucistic? (Have I got that word right?) Whatever he is, he is surely lovely to look at.
A believe so Anne. They aren’t albinos but rather leucistic, meaning they have a loss of multiple types of pigment and not just melanin.
Very cool. I never thought I would like a squirrel and only think of them as pesky rodents, but this guy is lovely to look at, albeit still a rodent!
Beautiful! Where I now live, up near Cape Cod, the most common squirrels are black. I had grown up thinking that all squirrels were gray. So easy to assume that what you know is all there is…
Very true Kim. I didn’t see black squirrels until I moved to Michigan and had them running around my yard all the time.
i think the squirrel is going to be huge in 2016. it’s their year. finally.
About time Joe, about time.
Is this squial a pest, by eating all your plants ect.
Hi Michael, no more so than ordinary grey squirrels. They mostly eat acorns and leave the grass alone.