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May 21, 2010

"Red" Squirrel

This "red" Eastern Gray Squirrel lives in the woods behind the Wild Bird Care Center in Stony Swamp. I have seen him a few times during the last two years and today I caught my first decent photo of him. It is not an uncommon sight to find Eastern Gray Squirrels with some red in their coats but I have never seen red as extensive as this.
 
I know there is a population of the globally rare Ram's Head Lady's-Slipper somewhere in Stony Swamp and I thought the extensive forested area between the Wild Bird Care Center and the Lime Kiln might be where I could find this species and perhaps something else equally unusual. I wasn't disappointed when I eventually didn't find anything because what I was looking for was literally like a needle in a haystack. Elsewhere in Stony Swamp I had my first Dusky Clubtail of the year, more Mustard Whites, Henry's Elfins, Eastern Pine Elfins, Juvenal's Duskywings, Black Swallowtails, Canadian Tiger Swallowtails (7+), Red Admrials (15+), American Ladys, a Harvester (1), Gray Comma, regular encounters with singing Wood Thrushes including a pair that were dueling by song, Scarlet Tanagers, and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, and I had a few migrants like the Bay-breasted Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Black-throated Blue Warbler, and Blackburnian Warbler.

Canon EOS 40D
1/1000s f/11.0 at 400.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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