SUN JOURNAL • July 23, 2020
Marty Corey has seen her share of squirrels over the years, but the creature who came sniffing around her bird feeders Wednesday was a first. The young squirrel, noshing on a morsel of food when Corey snapped a photo, is all black, from the top of its head to the tip of its tail, the opposite of an albino. It is a red squirrel that just happens to be black. According to one study, in North America, black squirrels are uncommon, with one estimate putting them at a rate of one in every 10,000.