Saw the coolest thing......

[Caster]

Just a few minutes ago I saw the coolest thing. There is a pair of albino squirrels in the oak trees across the yard. Beautiful. I got a picture or two but it's like playing a game of where's Waldo. An iPod is not the best choice for wildlife photography. The wife is going to dig out the good camera and we're gonna get some good pics of those little boogers!

[Guest db99wj]

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Jax970]

I've got one in my backyard. They are fun to watch.

[Caster]

Yeah pics are the problem. I'll get on the Mac tonight and see if I can clean up one of the iPod photos I took.

Sad story, apparently several years ago before I came to this neighborhood, some local douche killed several and fed them to his dogs. I'll feed him to my dog if he eyeballs these!

[Guest TnValleyBulletman]

I would be very interested in seeing the pics.

[Caster]

These really suck, but I will be getting some good ones soon. What gorgeous little fella. It looked just like the albino ferret I had many years ago.

[Guest db99wj]

Nice!

[VolunteerGuns]

Looks like Photoshop.

Cool sight. I have loads of squirels but mine are all the standard models.

[Caster]

I have a lot of standard models here too. I feed them year round.

What I want to know is; You can buy a squirrel proof bird feeder, but where can I get a bird proof squirrel feeder? Love squirrels, hate the stoopid birds. I've never had a squirrel poop on anything. I wish someone would develop a toxin that only affect starlings and blackbirds. It's a good thing I live in city limits, for my wallet AND my ammo inventory. I swear I'd start a starling Jihad.

[leroy]

....Yeah pics are the problem. I'll get on the Mac tonight and see if I can clean up one of the iPod photos I took.

Sad story, apparently several years ago before I came to this neighborhood, some local douche killed several and fed them to his dogs. I'll feed him to my dog if he eyeballs these!...

Amen brother! I dont allow any messin with my squirrels either.

Lookin forward to pictures!

leroy

[VERO1]

Can you tell if they are albino or just white? The albinos will have red eyes, the whites have normal dark eyes. We spend a good deal of time in Brevard N.C. where there is a pretty good concentration of white squirrels. Don't call them albinos or the residents will quickly explain your error to you!

[vontar]

very nice.

As a kid I used to hunt them, now that I live in the city I feed them. I consider it fair. One of my neighbors also feeds them. A new neighbor ask him to stop feeding them as they are digging up her yard burying the nuts. I figure we were both there before her so I don't plan to stop. I know he has not stopped.

[Caster]

Yes it were. About 500 or 600 yards from the first fast food joint to come here.

[Caster]

Can you tell if they are albino or just white? The albinos will have red eyes, the whites have normal dark eyes. We spend a good deal of time in Brevard N.C. where there is a pretty good concentration of white squirrels. Don't call them albinos or the residents will quickly explain your error to you!

Well, that's pretty darn good. I don't know, and and apologize for my ignorance. I just got back from Best Buy. Bought the wife a video new camera with a 78x zoom. I'll get some footage in the next week or so and take some stills from that. I should be able to get his/her eyes with 78x. Especially considering I can walk gently to within 10 yards of him/her.

Albino or not, I'm happy they've taken residence here. I love watching the squirrels play and for a color blind chap, the white sure is easy to track.

[ZZRguy]

I have a lot of standard models here too. I feed them year round.

What I want to know is; You can buy a squirrel proof bird feeder, but where can I get a bird proof squirrel feeder? Love squirrels, hate the stoopid birds. I've never had a squirrel poop on anything. I wish someone would develop a toxin that only affect starlings and blackbirds. It's a good thing I live in city limits, for my wallet AND my ammo inventory. I swear I'd start a starling Jihad.

I agree with you on that. My wife use to feed the squirrels here but the birds would push the food out and spread it all over the place, they would make a huge mess.

The squirrels would eat the food and see the cats watching them at the door and then the squirrels would get brave and would tap on the screen door and scare the cats. My Maine Coon wanted one real bad one day and after that squirrel teased him a couple times I let him out to chase the little teaser. The squirrel ran up the tree but we had just clipped the cats claws and he could not climb the tree. I went outside to get my cat and that squirrel started chirping as if he was chewing me out. LOL I let the cat out a couple of times to chase him but my cat just went over to see what he was eating.

You need to try Squirrel fishing S Q U I R R E L F I S H I N G

[Caster]

As promised! Here's one of the little beauties up close eating some CoOp Corn!

[leroy]

I like 'em!!! Great creatures and great pictures. I dont think these guys are albinos; they are "white supremist" squirrels!!!

Keep up the good work!

leroy

[Caster]

My friend has a few 5 gallon buckets of walnuts I think I'm gonna have to talk him out of. I dunno about the white ones but the grey ones will play catch. I can roll them across the yard and they will catch them on a bounce.

[Caster]

Yeah, not albinos. All the same to me though.

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Cute critters.

Wonder if the white is rarer because it makes them an easier target for predators?

We've had a family of big barred owls in central Red Bank for a few years. Poppa may have a wing span as much as three feet but it is difficult to tell. He hasn't ever let me measure him. Poppa has a gravelly Rod Stewart rock'n'roll hoot. A bad case of laryngitis.

Maybe they have a much wider hunting range than just Red Bank, but it is easy to hear them most evenings. I think they adjust their hunting territory according to available game. Sometimes they are close by in the yard and back woods, then sometimes I don't see em for months but hear them at a distance.

We have a lot more birds and squirrels when the barred owls are some distance away, and it seems that when the owls move in, the little critters move out. Or maybe the owls just eat a lot of them. Just thinking, if an owl or eagle can see white squirrels better, maybe that could explain their relative rarity?

[Caster]

Good question Lester, I don't know. I'm sure being easily seen has made them a target for some lousy redneck to shoot and brag about though.

[LastRebel70]

There is a town here in West TN that is known as the Home of the White Squirrel. It's Kenton.