White Morph - Eastern Grey Squirrel: I have been trying to get a picture of this rarity for the last year, and finally got it today. There are about three of these left in our...

Spider223

I have been trying to get a picture of this rarity for the last year, and finally got it today. There are about three of these left in our neighborhood. Reading about them, it is a gene that some squirrels carry that gives them white fur, but they are not albino.

I cropped this in Elements 15, post processed -1/2 stop, clarity 10%, and used Haze Removal

Nikon D5500
Nikkor 55-300mm
Auto Focus
Handheld VR On
f/5.6
1/250 sec
ISO 500
300mm

White Morph - Grey Squirrel
White Morph - Grey Squirrel...

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Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

Nice capture of a rare animal.

angela k Loc: Long Island

Congrats on finally getting the shot... how very cool and something I've never heard of or seen!!
Thanks for sharing!!

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

Spider223 wrote:

I have been trying to get a picture of this rarity for the last year, and finally got it today. There are about three of these left in our neighborhood. Reading about them, it is a gene that some squirrels carry that gives them white fur, but they are not albino.

I cropped this in Elements 15, post processed -1/2 stop, clarity 10%, and used Haze Removal

Nikon D5500
Nikkor 55-300mm
Auto Focus
Handheld VR On
f/5.6
1/250 sec
ISO 500
300mm

Nice capture. We have the opposite melanistic gray squirrel here in western Massachusetts.

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Spider223

Fred Harwood wrote:

Nice capture. We have the opposite melanistic gray squirrel here in western Massachusetts.

That's neat. We have black squirrels here, but they look nothing like your melanistic grey squirrel. When I looked up the white morph, there are a lot of reports of them in the Boston area (I'm in Michigan). We have quite a few crossbred squirrels in our neighborhood, brown squirrels with black tails, black squirrels with white faces, etc...

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

Beautiful creature that I have never seen except in photos. The tail is twice as thick as our grays.

Carolina Wings Loc: Flew from North Carolina to Pennsylvania

Spider223 wrote:

I have been trying to get a picture of this rarity for the last year, and finally got it today. There are about three of these left in our neighborhood. Reading about them, it is a gene that some squirrels carry that gives them white fur, but they are not albino.

I cropped this in Elements 15, post processed -1/2 stop, clarity 10%, and used Haze Removal

Nikon D5500
Nikkor 55-300mm
Auto Focus
Handheld VR On
f/5.6
1/250 sec
ISO 500
300mm

What a fantastic capture Spider

crafterwantabe Loc: Mn

Great shot!!!

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Really beautiful shot, Spider, of this gorgeous squirrel!