Albino squirrel

[urbpan]

We saw the famous white squirrel of Jamaica Pond yesterday. We were riding by on our bikes, I was babbling about something when I saw it, and said "HEY white squirrel!!" in a voice loud enough that ensures that I will scare Bigfoot away when I see him. The squirrel acted normal enough. cottonmanifesto managed this photo while still mounted on Fizzy (her bike). She handed the camera to me and I completely muffed my (relatively long) opportunity to get a closer shot. I skulked over to one side of it, it ran toward a tree, a nearby dog barked, the squirrel shot up the tree to where it could not be photographed.

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[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It was near the boathouse, on the North side (toward Boston proper).

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

I'll be at the zoo, and I've never been to the Jamaica Pond area - if I have time I'll take a walk and go look!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The boathouse is the only building on the pond's park grounds--they sell ice cream sandwiches there, and the bathrooms are there. If you are facing the building with the street to your back, you head toward the right to get to where we saw the squirrel (maybe 500 feet fromt the building). I dunno how big it's territory is, but we go there pretty often and this was the first time we saw it. Granted, it's the first time we've been there in weeks without the dogs...