I was riding along in my Jeep, going to the supermarket to get, you guessed it "Cat Food" when I spied this Black Squirrel. I immediately pulled over to take some pictures. A Black Squirrel in this neck of the woods is unheard of.
They are a mutation of the Eastern Gray Squirrel and were once a rare sighting. There are pockets where they are quite common, in parts of Ontario Canada, Ohio and Northern Wisconsin.
I started snapping pictures until the squirrel went deeper onto a homes property. I got back in the Jeep and started to pull away, when a burly, bearded guy came walking briskly over to me. He was coming from a business next to the home. He shouts out, are you taking pictures. I pulled back in and answered, YES sir. 
I get out and explain that I was taking pictures of a Black Squirrel. His scowl turned to a grin as he stated telling me he to enjoyed watching the rare squirrel. He said there were two but one got run over. He knew so much I asked him if he lived in the house were the squirrel was running around the yard. Yes he said, and I was welcome to walk around the property a take as many pictures as I wanted. So here are some more pictures. I didn't get a shot I wanted and the "Black" guy quickly went to the next yard with a Gray companion.
When I got home I checked out Black Squirrels on the computer. There I found a squirrel rarer, a "WHITE" squirrel.
Check out this video on WHITE SQUIRRELS. Now I must get some pictures of them.........
