Black Squirrels of Santa Cruz County

Melanistic Eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) in Santa Cruz county.
Exploring where all the fancy little dark ones are!

Interested in:

their distribution
any patterns/clusters
changes in frequency over time
ratio to regular gray squirrels

Some cool research on this:
https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article/100/6/709/834239
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237982755_Comparative_energetics_of_coat_colour_polymorphs_in_the_eastern_grey_squirrel_Sciurus_carolinensis menos ↑