This is a question to which I am not sure of the answer. Are grey squirrels that are pure white just a random aberration, or are they passing on their genes and increasing. I posted a picture of a white squirrel and had lots of comments from locals about how long do they live, and where they had been seen in the past. While I was watching them on my local patch suddenly I saw there were two. This made me ask the question are they on the increase? I would have thought that this white colouring would make them so obvious to predators that they would soon be wiped out. After all I spotted this one from right across a large field.
Although they are non-native species and are said to do a lot of damage to woodlands, I have to admit that I did find them quite strikingly beautiful and enjoyed trying to capture these images.
Perhaps someone out there knows the answer to this question.
