Around 7:30 while on stand this morning, I picked up some movement about sixty yards in front of me. It looked like sort of a white mink or something picking his way through the underbrush, and since I haven' t seen a deer in three days, the little object attracted all of my attention.

As he made his way closer to me, I saw that it was a very weird, mutated fox squirrel. His tail has the regular coloration: red with a smattering of black highlights. But from his tailbone on up, he' s pure white! He has black " points" on his ears, as well as his paws, and the underside of him is darker as well. It' s truly a very odd contrast of coloring... and I want him bad!!

I' m sitting in front of five pecan trees, and he worked his way to within about thirty yards. I thought I was going to be able to take him with my bow (I would have much preferred to harvest him with the ol' Mathews), but he jumped upon a little tree and then leapt onto a big pecan and ran up about forty yards, where he commenced cutting on nuts the rest of the morning, along with the six or seven of his normal-colored running mates.

I was going to pull my stand today, but I left it after seeing him. I' m going back out tomorrow morning with the .22 to see if I can get him. I' ve heard of some small populations of all-white squirrels in Tennessee as well as some wildly colored ones in Canada, but we have no such animals around here! He' s truly a one-of-a-kind, and would make a super-cool mount!