Ernie (Not Bert)

I don't know why I find black squirrels to be so fascinating. I guess it's because the ones we have in Florida are all grey, although I think they have red ones further up the peninsula. I shot this guy in DC, same as this other one I showed you, and I've tried to take their picture when I've seen them in Ohio, but never gotten a good shot. Isn't he cute? I just want to throw acorns at him. According to Wikipedia, black squirrels were introduced to DC at the very beginning of the 20th century.  Who knows if that's true or not, but it's an interesting story.  If you spot a black squirrel in an odd place, you can add it to the map here.

I don't know why I find squirrels so funny, I just do. I spotted this guy on a tree near the South lawn of the White House in Washington DC, just hanging around, chomping down on a nut. Why he chose to hang like this, I'll never know. But he seems happy enough while doing it.

No lie, I spotted this black squirrel on the lawn of the White House! All the others I spotted on my trip were plain old gray, but there was this black one. Do you think it's a coincidence that we have a black president, and there are black squirrels running around on the White House grass? I don't know... And with those evil red eyes, too. Oh, wait, that's just an artifact from the flash. It was really dark, and I got rained on pretty badly about 10 minutes after I took this shot, thus ending my picture taking for the day.