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By adamg - 12/4/14 - 2:17 pm
West End white squirrel

Jeff Tamagini spotted the white squirrel of the West End today, so it's obviously avoided the hawk of the West End to date.

By adamg - 9/18/14 - 8:42 am
Greyhound spots white rabbit in Allston

Andrea Crossan shows us what happens when a greyhound spots the fabled white bunny of Allston - on Islington Terrace.

Pandapwr, meanwhile, gets up and personal with one of the fabled white squirrels of the West End.

By adamg - 5/5/14 - 6:12 pm
Squirrel at Bellevue stop

Daniel Guzman reports this squirrel has taken up residence at the Bellevue commuter-rail stop on the West Roxbury/Roslindale line.

By adamg - 5/30/12 - 5:13 pm
Squirrel with golden tail

This squirrel kind of stood out in the Public Garden today. Wonder if any local drugstores have noticed boxes of hair dye looking as if they'd been chewed.

By adamg - 1/18/12 - 8:28 am
Squirrel eating a pizza

Brad Searles noticed this little guy chowing down on some of Allston's finest the other day.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 11/16/11 - 3:55 pm

The Animal Rescue League reports it responded to a call for a squirrel stuck in a tree on Lincoln Street in Allston today, only to find:

The squirrel stuck in a tree was not stuck. It was also, much to our surprise, a flying squirrel.

However, based on the photo, it does appear to have lost its aviator's cap and googles.

By adamg - 7/20/11 - 3:30 pm

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports a Brighton man thought he'd do a dying squirrel a favor and give him "a dignified death" by putting him in a tree. The squirrel's last act was to bite the man.

Ed. note: This story proves the old adage: When dog bites man, that's not news, but when dying squirrel bites man, now that's a story. Especially when, as Wicked Local notes, the man is unmarried.

By lex.galloway - 3/29/11 - 8:06 am

Filed on Citizens Complaint March 25th from Rutledge Street in the South End:

Dead squirrel on sidewalk

I guess he will be fined $50 for dying in a public place. ...

UPDATE: City says no squirrel on scene when inspector arrived, which is too bad because now Boston won't be able to erect its own mummified-squirrel park.

By adamg - 9/21/10 - 4:30 pm

One passenger on the Blue Line in Orient Heights seemed a bit squirrelly this afternoon. In fact, the Animal Rescue League of Boston had to be called in.

ARL volunteer Margaret Wirth reports T workers found a baby squirrel running around a Blue Line car around noon. Boston Animal Control worked with the league to corral the critter, whom they promptly named Charlie, of course.

Wirth says Charlie is headed to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Weymouth, where he will be prepared for a life in the wild. She adds that kindhearted T inspectors did not charge him with fare evasion.

By adamg - 8/12/10 - 2:17 pm

Welcome to Mummified Squirrel National Park on Elm Street (caution: video contains scenes of Skippy the Mummified Squirrel):

By adamg - 10/12/09 - 10:28 am

Boston Police tweet a squirrel chewed through the insulation of a wire on a transformer in West Roxbury this morning, causing a short that led to an explosion that ended with the Wren Street area losing power.

By adamg - 6/9/09 - 1:48 pm

Wicked Local Brookline proves Brookline is turning feral: The killer turkeys remain on the loose and now even the squirrels are turning into two-bit punks.

By adamg - 5/27/09 - 10:50 am

Ian and Lis have squirrels living in their walls - or maybe something else:

... "Listen," she said.

Adorable chirrups and purrs were coming from the walls.

"We've got a tribble infestation."

By adamg - 1/26/09 - 11:40 pm
albino on the move

Mike Ball snapped the fabled white squirrel of Jamaica Pond today; reports the mini-beast got close enough to grab a tossed nut, then scampered away.

Copyright Mike Ball.

By adamg - 12/2/08 - 7:04 pm

State wildlife biologist considers video taken by Steve Garfield of the squirrel near Jamaica Pond, says it looks like a true albino squirrel, as opposed to being a squirrel with white fur (albinos have pink eyes; white-furred squirrels have dark eyes).

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