cnynaturalist's Journal

I have gotten very fond of the dark-furred eastern gray squirrels, as one might guess from my profile picture. I get to see them on a regular basis where I currently live, but I will be relocating very soon to the Southern Tier area of NY state and of all the things I am worried about missing, the black squirrels are very high on the list.
I have tried noodling around on the internet to try to see if there are any near where I will be living and exploring. I found an iNat project called SquirrelMapper, along with a couple of other resources, that are somewhat helpful. Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to search iNaturalist for specifically dark morph squirrel observations. I wish there was an easier way to know where there are concentrations of them so I can get my black squirrel fix in different parts of the Northeast.
On the off chance that anyone is reading this at all, and on the even slimmer chance that anyone reading it knows something useful in this regard, I'm putting out a request for assistance in this endeavor!

I'm not sure how long this has been going on for, but my camera was recording images as having been taken an hour later than they actually were. Not that this significantly affects my observations, but perhaps it's worth noting that at least this last set of bird uploads in March were taken an hour earlier than the observations state. I am not invested enough to go through and change each one because I don't think it makes that much of a difference, but I changed the settings on my camera so they should be accurate going forward.