Re: [SBB] special visitor

[Nancy Teater <[[email protected]]>]

OK, thanks for the correction. I always thought these guys in my back yard 
were pretty scruffy lookin' so I'm glad they're not westerners. They must 
have got a poor start in life. My mammal book notes that the Eastern Gray 
aggressively waves its tail while calling "que que que."  That nails it 
down it for most of what I've got here.

That squirrel that was taken by the Cooper's Hawk a couple of years ago was 
still shocked, no matter what its race. ;-)
Nancy


At 08:48 AM 7/30/2006 -0700, Bill Bousman wrote:
>At 01:09 AM 7/30/2006, Nancy Teater wrote:
>
>>About two years ago, a COHA swooped down on a black squirrel (melanistic
>>western gray) in our back yard, surprising both the squirrel and human
>>observers.
>
>Our urban squirrels are eastern gray squirrels, an import (like most of 
>us).  The western grays, seen in the Santa Cruz Mountains are larger and 
>generally show little or no tan or rufous and have bushier tails.
>
>Bill

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Nancy R. Teater, Hamilton Communications
[[email protected]]
phone 650.321.0252  fax 650.491.3878


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