I was going to say "White is Beautiful", and it is but I don't expect to see white on animals in my backyard (suburban St. Louis). Yesterday morning, I caught a trace of white hopping on my paving stones. When I published it on facebook and said I thought it was a robin, no one believed me.
But, today I got some good photos and I was RIGHT---it's a white robin or albino robin. Apparently, they don't have to have pink eyes to be albino.
Sometimes the robins just have a little white and are called "white robins", so mine definitely qualifies although he is a little beige. If you google "white robin" you'll see some that just have white spots on their chests.
They would be weird enough, but I have very light and white squirrels in my yard, too.
These were photographed last year, but I have seen at least one of them scamper through the trees. I wonder what this says about my community and the environment.
Read here what a woman from an Avian Rehabilitation Center says. Really, what are the odds that my .33 of an acre in a subdivision has two albino animals?
