At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...
Question: A couple of black squirrels have been joining the merry band of gray squirrels marauding my bird feeders. What causes this color change, and how common is it? Answer: Recent research from ...
Editor’s note: The following column was originally printed in the New Hampshire Union Leader on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. OVER THE YEARS, I have received several photographs of black and white members ...
The North American squirrel is an oft-seen but under-recognized staple of North America. They operate on a low-key level but are adaptable enough to survive the waves of human development that have ...
Over the past two months that I have been gathering data, 57 readers responded with a total of 69 to 75 melanistic gray squirrels reported. Lack of location or number and obvious duplications have ...
The sightings of three black squirrels during a winter’s walk around my block led me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I believe that it was about three years ago when I first spotted a black squirrel at ...
At first, I thought a black cat had crossed my path, but a second glance out the window revealed the critter was not a cat at all – it was a black squirrel, and a rather burly one at that. Black ...