I know I have mentioned this before on my blog but I still can't get over the fact that the squirrels in Canada are black. How did that happen? How come none of them have migrated down to Rochester?
Of course, they are just as chubby and cute as the ones in our backyard. We stood and took pictures and video of this fella gnawing on a peanut for quite awhile.
When we were looking at houses (in Philly) we stepped into the backyard of one and I nearly fell out when I saw a black squirrel! Our realtor said he had seen them before in the area. I had never seen one before and, 4 years later I've never seen another! Alternatively, when we lived in Florida we saw an albino squirrel once. =)
ReplyDeletetoronto is actually the only place i've ever seen black squirrels here in canada ... i think they are mutant city squirrels ... the dark fur gives them some street cred. :) here in nova scotia, the squirrels are red and tiny and much less likely to snatch your purse:
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There were black squirrels in Amherst, MA where I went to college. Get this though, I saw a white albino squirrel on the bike path near my house recently. It blew my mind! No pics to prove it though.
ReplyDeleteI saw black squirrels in Washington DC (near Walter Reed AMC). It flipped me out there too!
ReplyDeleteI live outside of Washington DC and have had black squirrels visit my backyard. I have only seen a few each year, but they are out there. It actually freaked out my dog when she spotted one for the first time!
ReplyDeleteThey are black in Detroit too, so clearly some have gotten past border patrol.
ReplyDeleteIn Texas we have both brown squirrels and black squirrels. We call the black squirrels rock squirrels although I don't know if this is what they are actually called. I haven't seen a black squirrel in about 10 years though.
ReplyDeleteWe have some black squirrels here in Frederick, MD. Cute little things.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your black squirrel reports!
ReplyDeleteApparently these rogue squirrels have hopped on trains and traveled to Philly, Amherst, DC, Detroit, Texas and Frederick.
I will be on the lookout for one of these elusive albino squirrels too.
The tiny red squirrels of Nova Scotia sound cute too.
The black squirrels are actually in charge of opening new Tim Hortons in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteCome to Syracuse! We have black squirrels all over the place here. I went to school at RPI in Troy and we had Alby the Albino Squirrel there.
ReplyDeleteYou need to head to Exeter Ontario - home of the white squirrel.
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I saw one when I was there and squealed.
In Michigan, we have red, grey, black and brown but I had to go to Exeter to see the white squirrels.
Closer to home! U of R's River Campus has albino squirrels - spend a bit of time on the quad and you should see one - also some splotchy - white/ brown mixes. I always kinda thought they had gotten into some radioactive hospital waste or something.
ReplyDeletewe have black and grey ones in CA. my dad had never seen a black one till his last visit and thought i was teasing him when i told him it was a squirrel. he thought for sure it was a large rat or mutated opossum...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was about to comment that there were always a lot of black squirrels in Syracuse, but Stephanie beat me to it. :)
ReplyDeletei've never seen them in western canada where i live, but i have seen them any time i've been in ontario!
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ReplyDeleteWhen I went to the University of Rochester an urban myth explained the black squirrels as a DNA experiment in the wild. I'm going with Wiki on this one though. :)
I've lived in Edmonton all my life and we only had Brown squirrels there ... I moved to Calgary... 3 hours away and they have Black and the odd Grey squirrel...I Love watching them run...especially across the wires overhead!
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of black squirrels out here in California too.
ReplyDeleteI used to live in Fairport, and would sometimes see a black squirrel running around in the area of the Pittsford Y on Crestview Drive. This was a few years ago, so not sure if he or she is still running around there or not.
ReplyDeleteI saw these often in Reedsburg, WI...they escaped from Barnum & Bailey's circus and pretty much are local to the area...never migrating far. I saw one the other week and though I was nuts..maybe the same sort of thing.
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