Leucistic bird
Bad time to not have my camera…pulled over and got a few quick shots on my phone of this brown crow.
Hopefully I’ll see them again when I have my camera!
A really neat presumed hybrid fox/eastern gray squirrel. Larger than the other grays (see second photo). Black with russet chest and underbelly. Frequently "bullied" by the grays, despite being larger than them!
partially leucistic individual
white
Some discussion as to species. Its clearly leucistic, and probably has been around a year or two. I thought it was a mouse. Others thought chinchilla or chipmunk. Chipmunks and banded ground squirrels frequent this location (a bird feeder).
It’s GHOST CHIPPY! Albino eastern chipmunk (red eyes)
Red-winged Blackbird
near Stewardson, Illinois
1 June 1989
I'm posting this record just for the general interest of a Red-winged Blackbird with one white wing. Whether a partial albino, or a partial leucistic bird, I'm not sure. A local farmer told my wife and me that this bird had been on his farm for three summers. The bird left in the fall with the other Red-wingeds and came back in the spring. I watched it for about 30 minutes. It vocalized like any other Red-winged BB and interacted with other Red-wingeds normally. It was pretty flashy to see in flight, however. Three shots posted. These images scanned from old color slides.
this one was uniquely light, maybe had a little albinism? i couldn't get a great picture but wanted to share anyway lol
Leucistic Eastern Chipmunk feeding on bird seed near Anita Purves Nature Center.
Plumage seems very light compared to others I’ve observed?