The red phase coons I mean are rust colored where they should be black, and creme colored where they should be brown. Sorta makes em look butterscotch. Theres no black, and even the nose and feet pads are liver colored. I dont know if thats what you guys see too, but they sure are beautiful.

As for bald eagles, I havent see any yet this spring, although I usually start seeing them cruising way high up, Im on the flyway, and now and then I see one come up off a roadkill deer. Funny thing is, as one describes them as huge, with the wide wingspan, I was always commenting on how they struck me as modest in size! They still are so impressive, no matter how many I get to see a year.

JHoffman, Ill give you one more day to figure out your mammal with the red males and brown females. The prettiest black bear I ever saw was a mount I judged in Utah. A guy named Tracy did a beautiful job on it. It was an odd chocolate color, with very fine hair, more like a sow then a boar, but almost silky. Then all the tips where blonde, like a silvertip, but again, just different then any Id ever seen. As I recall we were referring to it as platinum. It was truly a one of a kind.