This black squirrel is bigger than our nice little reddish ones. It seems to have a tag in its ear. I have not seen it since this time it was in my back garden. More recently, the squirrels have been digging around my garden to recover peanuts that someone in the neighbourhood has been feeding them. Maybe they resented the fact that I took down the Virginia creeper and destroyed their 'apartment' nest in the vine. It was huge! The guy from Davey Tree was good enough to haul away all the debris and do a close crop of the st. John's wort, all in the driveway strip. The creeper is growing again, and, of course, there is no controlling St. John's wort. Eastern gray squirrels, including their black morphs, were introduced into British Columbia during the early 1900s. The species was also later introduced into other areas of Canada to which it was not native, such as Calgary, Alberta.

Recreated and uploaded August 30, 2023

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