White Squirrels!

[cenacle]

try out this site, it's really funny...well, i think so, me and KD look at squirrels all the time in seattle parks, but we did not realize how seriously some take them! hehe...

http://www.whitesquirrels.ca/

[Aneurysm]

Hmm, very strange indeed.  I've never seen a white squirrel myself, but I have run across Seattle's Squirrel King.  I used to think that all squirrels were timid seed-eating creatures, so you can imagine I was quite surprised when I discovered that squirrels actually have alphas.  

Myself and a friend were feeding the squirrels in Volunteer Park last year when we came upon this beast of a rodent.  This thing was gynormous by squirrel standards, with a tinge of red in his fur.  We'd throw nuts to the other squirrels but he would chase them off with great fervor and claim the crunchy prizes for his own.  He also showed alot less fear of us than the others, coming very close and setting me and my friend on edge.

It was not long after this excursion that, while at work one day, a gray squirrel hopped the patio railing and ran through my barista station and over to the cook station, taking refuge under the sandwich line when he knew that he had been spotted.  It took a staff effort to scare him out the door and he almost doubled back in again.  

Obviously the Squirrel King had sent one of his minions for me, thinking in his deluded rodent fantasies, that I have some legendary cache of nuts and seeds that would end the wide spread hunger of his people and bring on a golden age for his clan of treedwellers.  They think that I'm the dragon guarding the gold...and they think they have a pretty good chance of taking me down.  Now, everytime a squirrel passes by my café door, I can't help but wonder if my defeat is at hand.

And so I offer this warning to all who dwell in the Pacific Northwest:  Beware the Squirrel King of Volunteer Park!  His subjects may be cute and fuzzy, but he is merciless and cruel indeed!  :shock:

 :lol:

[TroutMask]

^^^ Great story!!!

We have black squirrels here in addition to the regular greys. We'll keep an eye out for white ones, but I'm not hopeful with the coyotes, etc....

-TM

[winder]

The squirrels on the campus where I attended college were so bold and accustomed to humans that a few would climb your pants' legs to get the morsels offered.

[senorsalvia]

On a weekend outing in central Illinois, we headed into a town named Olney..  Little burg, maybe 5-7 thousand residents.  They have prominently placed large signs at the entrance roads to their towns, proclaiming that they are the "white squirrel city"...  As we slowly cruised their quiant city streets we spotted dozens of albino squirrels happily scurrying about....  Nice sight.............  senorsal

[Stonehenge]

Squirrels are more intelligent than most people realise. I saw a program on one of the educational channels once about how they tried to make bird feeders squirrel proof. The animals would get over, under or through just about anything. They would try to acces the feeder along a wire and they had stuff to block the squirrels. The animals would fall off the first few times but kept coming back and eventually figured it out. White squirrels are albinos which are rare in nature.

[typonaut]

Hey, I read about Olney's white squirrel population. There's another town with white squirrels, I think in Missouri. The 2 populations are supposed to be related.

I found this excellent book in the kids' section of the library last fall. Large format, lots of pictures, lots of information, called something like Albino Animals. Read about the squirrels there.

[cenacle]

nouveau and i were in Denny Park in Seattle yesterday, on the look out for the Squirrel King...no sign of him...only one we saw is this one i've seen before, he's the Crack Squirrel, does weird stuff that is unaccountable even by squirrel standards

[Aneurysm]

The Crack Squirrel, eh?  You'll have to regale us with his strange un-squirrely antics.

Anyways, if you want to see the Squirrel King, you have to go to Volunteer Park, not Denny Park (they might be one in the same for all I know, but I don't think Volunteer Park is anywhere near Denny).  Again though, beware of him.  BEWARE I SAY!  Especially since it is spring and procreation is in the air.  Who knows how crazy squirrels could get in such a state?  

Tread lightly and carry lots of walnuts.

--Aneurysm

[William]

Kinda creepy man, I was attacked by a squirrel once.

Ever since then, I have feared them