Eastern Gray Squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
Eastern Gray Squirrel · Green-Wood Cemetery · 28 September 2025
A gray squirrel paused halfway up a trunk at Green-Wood with the fall canopy for a backdrop. Gray squirrels are the squirrel of the eastern deciduous woods and every park in them, and Green-Wood's are used to foot traffic and camera lenses, which is most of why a shot this close is possible at all.
The tail is doing double duty as counterbalance and, fanned out like this, as a parasol. A genuinely wild gray squirrel keeps far more distance. This is the squirrel that was released in Britain in the 1870s and has since pushed the red out of most of England.
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