Visiting friends in Ann Arbor yesterday. They live in a great area with woods and a tree-filled golf course behind the woods abutting their back yard. The house has an upper level deck with bird feeders and yesterday the tufted titmice, black-capped chickadees and one white-breast nuthatch were busy.
Cleaning up the spilled seeds on the deck below was this [probably] juvenile Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) with white ear tufts. I looked through gray squirrel photos on Google images and a couple did show squirrels with white ear tufts. Additionally, there were photos of completely albino gray squirrels. I took these photos through the picture window with my iPhone camera.
This little squirrel was so cute and the first I've seen with white ear tufts.
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We have one this year at our feeders too. Northern Minnesota
Have one today with white ear tufts in my yard in northwest North Carolina, feasting on acorns and beechnuts. Much smaller than a typical gray squirrel, an adolescent perhaps?
3 new squirrels with white ear tufts showed up at my bird feeder in Daytona Beach this month.
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