Very cool pics! Thanks! Wish I could at least see something that unusual.

Wow, that's cool!

That's really neat Claire! Thanks for posting it.

How different! Thx for posting it.

The leucistic grackle is back. Judging by his jousting with a normal feathered grackle it's a male. Grackles don't share well.

With the Fourth of July coming up, I'm thinking of this one as a star-spangled grackle.

Claire

Note that the pics were also posted on a thread on the New England Gardening forum.

That's interesting Claire.

I've lived in the woods for about 32 years and have tons of squirrels. But this year, we have a bunch of squirrels with varying parts of white/beige. And some people in 2 different local towns have seen white squirrels (not albinos). We were wondering if something about the winter caused this? Or maybe in-breeding?
Here's a pic of one of the squirrels.

That's interesting Claire.

I've lived in the woods for about 32 years and have tons of squirrels. But this year, we have a bunch of squirrels with varying parts of white/beige. And some people in 2 different local towns have seen white squirrels (not albinos). We were wondering if something about the winter caused this? Or maybe in-breeding?
Here's a pic of one of the squirrels.

That's a great looking squirrel, catherinet. I found a site that lists white squirrel colonies in different locations within the range of the Eastern Gray Squirrel, but they don't talk about the reason for them.

Inbreeding sounds good to me, or possibly migration of a few leucistic squirrels into your area and breeding with the local population. Maybe someone here knows more.

Claire

Catherinet - in what state/province/region are you located?

Hi bob............I'm in central Indiana.