I came across this little melanistic gray squirrel today, and naive as he is, he just sat there on that white oak branch and let me take a few photos and a few seconds of video of him.
In this particular stretch of woods there are black variants and normal gray variants, but they come in more color variants than I can describe here.
Eastern gray squirrels have two litters per year. This one was born in the late winter winter litter. Its mother is likely already pregnant with her midsummer litter which will be born some time next month.
As I mentioned, I did get a little bit of video of this squirrel before he darted off:
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