Unusual gray squirrel

[Bowmannate2000]

We have this gray squirrel in our neighborhood this spring. It is dark brown/black with a cinnamon tail. I don't think I've seen one like this before. There is another normal gray with the same red tail as well. We have quite a few all black ones around as well as the normal grays. Thought it was pretty interesting. Hoping we can get a better picture with my wife's DSLR.

 

[The Missing Link]

Looks like a fox squirrel and a black squirrel had babies. Pretty squirrel all in all.

 

[MThuntr]

sun bleached tail = surfer squirrel named Chad

 

[Flatbrimmer]

sun bleached tail = surfer squirrel named Chad

Must have heard him wrong, I thought he told me “Chaz”… Either way, he told me he’d let his buddies know to quit chattering at me when I’m sneakin through the elk woods…

 

[MThuntr]

Must have heard him wrong, I thought he told me “Chaz”… Either way, he told me he’d let his buddies know to quit chattering at me when I’m sneakin through the elk woods…

Maybe Bodie?

 

[Wvhntr81]

Didn’t he play on the movie Point Break

 

[Bowmannate2000]

He's still feeling quite at home in our yard. Still need to get a picture with a better camera, but I pulled in the driveway after work last night and snapped this.

 

[Treeshark]

We have a local state park that is loaded with black squirrels, I see ones like this fairly often.

 

[ismith]

Probably melanistic.