Friday, 10 October 2014

Albino Grey Squirrel, Worcester, Friday, 10th October, 2014.

I first saw this little fella at the 'Viaduct end' of The Racecourse about a week and a half ago but failed to get a photo. I've kept an eye out since then but never thought I'd spot him again, given how they can move about the area through the trees, but here he/she is again only a few feet away from the last time. 
Quite territorial then.
Last time it was in the trees and then ran along the railings next to the footpath 
to take a closer look at me. 
 I thought: 'I know, I'll take a photo' (I'm quick like that). It watched me flaffing about taking the camera out of it's wallet-thingy on my belt, switch the thing on all fingers-and-thumbs, and then finally lift the camera up to take a shot. It immediately thought 'sod that' and jumped back into the bushes and then turned back to look at me from a safer distance. Not to be thwarted I still tried to take a shot but the cowin' digital gadget-thingy (I refuse to call it a camera when it fannies about) was still set on 'flash' from having used that setting for an indoors shot the weekend before. Consequently, all that happened was the infra red sensor frightened the squirrel off as my gadget tried to gauge a suitable setting.
Needless to say I was….ahem….cowin' frustrated and thought the moment had gone forever.
I told Vicky about it when she got home and, since then, I have also mentioned it to several folk at cardio-fit and none had ever seen a albino squirrel.
Not sure how rare they might be but at least I've seen it again and taken these photos, so I feel a bit happier now.
I was beginning to think I might have imagined the whole thing.

N.B. Just had a swift Google, and the odds of an albino grey squirrel are about 1:100,000.
The digital gadget-thingy is much happier taking shots of static subjects like this funghi growing on a dead tree, further 'round the racecourse, that fell over during last winters harsh weather and flooding.
Hmmmm, I'm looking forward to a nice fry-up for breakfast tomorrow.

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