Show us animal color/phase variants you have seen:

[Chris in TN]

This weekend was our youth deer season. Middle child and I saw several deer but nothing she wanted to shoot. The oldest and I went yesterday afternoon.

We saw two does with color variations - the first has almost no throat patch color. The second has a legitimate double throat patch. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a picture of her as she was either moving or facing the wrong way. Im going to try to check a trail camera and see if I have her there this afternoon.

But it reminded me of a melanistic pronghorn I saw years ago in Nebraska:





Whatcha got?

 

[huntsman22]

blonde coon....

 

[Hnthrdr]

blonde coon....

The great white coon!!!

 

[fishslap]

Black phase fox squirrel. Not uncommon.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Black phase fox squirrel. Not uncommon.

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Looks like there is an Aberts squirrel in the woodpile

 

[fishslap]

Looks like there is an Aberts squirrel in the woodpile

Negative. It’s exactly what I said, black phase fox squirrel. Aberts are a different species and don’t typically hang out in neighborhoods in the northern front range of Colorado, but I have seen them in the foothills.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Negative. It’s exactly what I said, black phase fox squirrel. Aberts are a different species and don’t typically hang out in neighborhoods in the northern front range of Colorado, but I have seen them in the foothills.

I’m joking man, I said that cause Aberts are black… like his fox squirrel mother was running around on the weekends in the mountains with an Aberts squirrel while dad fox squirrel was busy gathering nuts