We don't see many sightings of the black squirrel, in our area. Some sources estimating only 1 in 10,000 squirrels being black but they are more common in specific areas of the U.S., including some parts of Wisconsin. I photographed this one crawling quickly down a limb of the Flowering Crab Apple tree in our backyard the evening of 5/9/2025. He did not show up again until July and August where he came for brief periods to eat alone on the feeder. Another sighting was a few evenings ago when he ran toward me. I almost mistook it for a stray black cat at first until he took off running in another direction, and I could see it was the black squirrel. I didn't have my camera with me at the time to capture that brief encounter.