If you travel further north in Michigan, you'll see more black squirrels.
The gray squirrels still seem to hang out in the more urban areas,
although every time I visit back there they seem to be spreading further
and further afield.

Susan (born and raised in Ann Arbor!)

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 NJPharris at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>