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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 25, 2007 10:01:40 GMT -5
ok i ditched all my feeders since the squirrels just practice gymnastics with these until they destroy them. i think i already told y'all that one of my squirrels really likes to keep up with me and see what i'm doing. this is him & notice how much darker he is than the regular fox squirrel. any ideas on what kind he is?   regular fox squirrel  chipmunk who has tunnels all over the yard that go into my flower bed and come out in the pasture.   a hawk must have flown over and everyone was alerted to run for cover and they did.   it is raining like crazy here now and the squirrel is out there holding his tail over his head to keep from getting wet while he eats. looks like he has a red wig! kim |
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Post by Cher on Apr 25, 2007 11:18:29 GMT -5
No idea on the dark squirrel. Maybe he's just a black fox squirrel, every now and again we get a black or white on up here that are just mutants. Did you get a pic of the squirrel in the rain?
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Post by wm7734 on Apr 25, 2007 11:56:09 GMT -5
council bluffs,iowa is famous its totally black squirrels
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2007 12:36:33 GMT -5
Great squirrel pics! Do you have a zoom lens?
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Post by spikeict on Apr 25, 2007 13:25:19 GMT -5
Am positive the first one is:
zanRi5eg zanrisjeig, genus Mesembriomys
Spike
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 25, 2007 14:54:56 GMT -5
haha you got cool squirrels there kim i never seen red tailed ones back home they where just a plain gray -- you also got some real cool lizerds too remember the blue one i cought on your patio
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Post by deb193 on Apr 25, 2007 15:31:23 GMT -5
I had squirrels across town at my last place, but where I live now seems bereft of squirrels. Must be the lack of trees. I wonder if a feeder in the backyard would make any difference.
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Post by akansan on Apr 25, 2007 15:40:23 GMT -5
Funny, this is the one place I've lived where we have no squirrels in town at all. The surrounding towns have squirrels, but not here. And I have this great big pecan tree (and fruit trees - tasty fruit trees!), with no one but my dog to help me clean up the mess.  |
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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 25, 2007 16:03:04 GMT -5
lol mark if you tell me you got that out of reader's digest i'll believe it.
something is eating your squirrels rhonda! daniel you have to have some trees or they have nowhere to nest.
kim
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Post by spikeict on Apr 25, 2007 16:12:45 GMT -5
No Kim, actually I had to work for it. Three different translators, and finally G$$gle before I found the one I liked. Ha
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Post by Sabre52 on Apr 25, 2007 16:34:58 GMT -5
Yep, I'm with Cher, looks like a partially melanistic ( dark phase Fox Squirrel) Only other one you might have of that size is the Eastern Gray Squirrel and they don't have the red hairs in the tail (either gray lined with white or all black if melanistic)....mel
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Post by krazydiamond on Apr 25, 2007 16:39:22 GMT -5
rats with pretty tails if you ask me.....
KD
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Post by akansan on Apr 25, 2007 16:43:43 GMT -5
Mark - the translation I get for that is tree-rat. Do I get extra points?  |
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Post by spikeict on Apr 25, 2007 18:18:54 GMT -5
Lol, yes Ronda 50 more.
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Post by Toad on Apr 25, 2007 21:22:47 GMT -5
council bluffs,iowa is famous its totally black squirrels I've seen black ones in the Quad Cities also. I heard they were imported form Scotland, though that may be urban legend. |
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Post by spikeict on Apr 25, 2007 21:44:48 GMT -5
Scottish squirrels? Well thats different then lad. They can roam the land as long as they are in my nieghbors pecan trees rather than mine.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Apr 25, 2007 23:18:46 GMT -5
well that explains his accent!
kim
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Post by agatemaggot on Apr 25, 2007 23:19:22 GMT -5
Looks like a fox squirrel with a couple wierd genes. We have an area in Waterloo Ia. that has fox squirrels with markings like a Pinto Pony. Some have white legs and body with a normal colored saddle around the middle and others have white heads or tails and sometimes both.
Spotting something like that early Sunday morning makes you wonder what the bartender was serving Saturday night !!!!!
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Post by Rose on Apr 27, 2007 17:44:25 GMT -5
Re-posting this for KD as requested  |
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Post by MichiganRocks on Apr 27, 2007 18:26:03 GMT -5
Hey Rose, I love that. I think his cousin was living at my place. bd   |
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