Re: [SBB] special visitor

[Mark Bohrer <[[email protected]]>]

Eastern gray squirrel, black phase, Saratoga: http://tinyurl.com/agr6s
Western gray squirrel, Saratoga: http://tinyurl.com/lqfro

Eastern gray black morph may have rufous breast pelage. In other 
words, his chest and belly may be red. The ones around my house in 
Saratoga have red belly fur.

(This went just to Bill before, and was meant for the list.)

At 12:47 PM 7/30/2006, you wrote:
>Folks:
>
>Local melanistic squirrels are a color variant of the eastern gray squirrel.
>
>Bill
>
>At 12:23 PM 7/30/2006, Richard Cimino wrote:
> >Isn't there a population of Black Squirrel in Palo Alto?
> >Rich Cimino
> >Pleasanton
> >
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>
> > > To: Nancy Teater <[[email protected]]>; <[[email protected]]>
> > > Date: 7/30/2006 8:49:28 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [SBB] special visitor
> > >
> > > 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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