Hi, all!

I just got back from a weekend in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I was checking
out their grad program in linguistics. It's very much still winter there
(snowed twice), so not a lot of birds, apart from city dwellers (though I
could swear the crows out there have longer tails and higher-pitched calls
than ours).

One thing that really jumped out at me is that their "gray" squirrels are a
definite bronze color, with a golden-yellow underbelly, quite unlike our gray
and white squirrels. I mentioned it to one of the other students and she
remarked that Ohio has a lot of white and black squirrels.

Any other trans-continental travelers out there notice obvious differences in
city-dwelling species like squirrels, crows, house sparrows, etc.?

Curiously,

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
NJPharris at aol.com