Monday, October 20, 2014

A magical black squirrel!

Photos: Marge Ishmael

We saw this magical and rare black squirrel on our afternoon walk today! Black squirrels are relatively rare - about 1 in 10,000. Here is an interesting article about black squirrels that appeared in Chicago Wilderness magazine
http://www.chicagowilderness.org/CW_Archives/issues/summer2005/squirrels.html

A little further into the walk we came across the sad sight of a cormorant with fishing wire entangled in its beak. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Cormorant/id



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