Re: More backyard - fur and flyers

Doug:
OK, maybe it's a fox squirrel. It's just an atypical coloring without the white or rust belly, and it's the same size as the grays, not bigger like a fox squirrel would be.

It looks an awful lot like a black phase Eastern gray squirrel - could it be descended from introduced Easterners?


At 06:07 PM 12/21/2005, you wrote: 
Mark, there's no black color phase of the Western Gray Squirrel, there is
one for the Eastern Fox Squirrel.

--
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

on 12/21/05 4:29 PM, Mark Bohrer at lurchl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Douglas:
> He's about the same size as the rest of the western grays, and he's all
> black - there's little or no rust or gray on his belly, or white patches or
> stripes on him anywhere. And his ears are a bit furrier than a fox squirrel's.
>
> He's one of a pair that have been very active in my yard the last 10 months
> or so. Here's another picture:
> http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Tree_Squirrels/DML-TS-WG01
> 91-5.htm
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/7usm6
>
>
>
> At 01:00 PM 12/21/2005, you wrote:
>> Are you certain of the squirrel's ID? Looks like Eastern Fox Squirrel to
>> me, a non-native speices that was introduced in many west coast cities.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacrmento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mark Bohrer <lurchl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Dec 21, 2005 1:55 PM
>>> To: DUG@xxxxxxxxxx, leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: More backyard - fur and flyers
>>>
>>> You wouldn't expect a manual-focus lens to work well for action. But plan
>>> the picture and you can capture it.
>>>
>>> Robins had taken over a neighbor's aspen trees. So I prefocused and waited.
>>> Something spooked the whole batch and they all flew. The 400mm Telyt was
>>> narrow enough for only one of them, but the bird was far enough away for
>>> his former perch to make nice diagonals:
>>> http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Birds/Perching_BX/DBX-MR0090-
>> 56.htm
>>> or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/bg2lb
>>>
>>> A pair of bold western gray squirrels chased everybody else off, and buried
>>> their own nuts:
>>> http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/Wildlife/Mammals/Tree_Squirrels/DML-TS
>> -WG0179-7.htm
>>> or
>>> http://tinyurl.com/8hhns
>>>
>>> All comments welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>> One thing you discover with the Telyt on EOS cameras is that Canon's
>>> excellent EF1.4X II and EF2X II extenders won't work. The camera sees the
>>> extender's information, but doesn't see the lens information with the
>>> manual Telyt. The camera gets confused, and too-long exposure times are the
>>> result.
>>>
>>> This just means you need to:
>>> 1. get a Leitz teleconverter, or
>>> 2. use stealth distraction techniques to get closer.
>>>
>>> I've been sneaking up on distracted wildlife for awhile and don't want to
>>> buy a Leica converter for just one lens, so you know what I do...
>>>
>>> Mark Bohrer
>>> Precision Copywriting
>>> www.precision-copywriting.com
>>>
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