American killer squirrels. Sheesh. Do you have the black mutation over there?
We have a some very densly forested parklands in the Portland area filled with black squirrels.
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Typo Boy - Dec 16, 2002 5:32:00 pm PST #963 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:22:43 pm PST #964 of 9843
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I've got black squirrels in the backyard of the house my apartment looks out on in the Bronx right now, and they're fuckin' great!
Roadside America's black squirrel page.
Boston is not blessed with the cool black squirrels, but some of the greys have reddish tails and occasionally a weird red stripe down the middle of their backs. Maybe English red squirrels are infiltrating.
Edited to note that the weird red stripe isn't the result of somebody using a squirrel gun, it's red fur.
billytea - Dec 16, 2002 6:30:32 pm PST #965 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
And if a UK immigrant named the American bird, it must have been before the widespread introduction of eyeglasses.
There are a fair few species in the world called robins now, on the basis (of course) of having a red breast (or possibly being related to a red-breasted bird). My Complete Book of Australian Birds lists over 15 native species called robins on that continent alone. (It also records that in the 1860s, an unsuccessful attempt was made to introduce the European robin. And that we have an escaped population of ostriches north of Port Augusta, that's survived from the 1870s. There you go.)
Then there's the famous white squirrels, most of whom seem to have dark eyes and aren't albinos.
I have photos of an albino squirrel we saw in Hershey, PA. (Just checked it - pink eye and all.) Had to chase it halfway round Zoo America to get the shot. We get black squirrels around my apartment block - they seem stroppier than the normal grey ones.
DXMachina - Dec 16, 2002 6:31:36 pm PST #966 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Boston is not blessed with the cool black squirrels, but some of the greys have reddish tails and occasionally a weird red stripe down the middle of their backs. Maybe English red squirrels are infiltrating.
Yup. I think they're sneaking in from Canada. I see them all the time when we camp in Maine, and I remember first seeing them when I was in Nova Scotia years and years ago.
Sue - Dec 16, 2002 6:42:46 pm PST #967 of 9843
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Yes! We have red squirrels a-plenty here. None of those Squirrel-on-Steroids black ones. Another reason you have to move here and marry Elena's cousin, Fay.
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:47:10 pm PST #968 of 9843
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Fifteen different sorts of robins?? Wow.
Saw a white--not albino--squirrel in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. Didn't have a camera.
Theodosia - Dec 16, 2002 6:48:27 pm PST #969 of 9843
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I have seen two white (not albino) squirrels in Somerville, many blocks apart so that I’m pretty sure they weren’t actually the same squirrel twice....
Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:49:40 pm PST #970 of 9843
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Yup. I think they're sneaking in from Canada.
ARRRRRRGH!!
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AND they're watching Buffy RIGHT NOW! Canadians! Everywhere...Canadians!
Wait...my Mom is half-Canadian...which means I have unAmerican Canadian blood in me right now!
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Caroma - Dec 16, 2002 6:51:14 pm PST #971 of 9843
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Well. Nothing wrong with being part Canadian. Mom was from Brooklyn. That counts for a lot. And everybody loves Canadians, on yeah...
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Lived in Somerville for four years and never saw the snowy squirrels. Bleah.
Sue - Dec 16, 2002 6:55:18 pm PST #972 of 9843
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We've finished watching Buffy, thank you very much.