Rare “one-in-a-million” white albino squirrel spotted around UK garden
- 2 years ago
A rare “one-in-a-million” white albino squirrel was captured on camera scurrying around a garden in Leicestershire.
Stunned Jamie Blaylock, 15, was looking out of his bedroom window when he spotted a flash of white in his back garden.
The keen photographer grabbed his camera and fired off a few shots before the critter disappeared over a fence.
Jamie then set up his camera to film the white squirrel just in time to capture it darting through the trees by his home in Narborough.
Albinism is caused by a genetic condition that reduces melanin and affects around one in a million grey squirrels.
Stunned Jamie Blaylock, 15, was looking out of his bedroom window when he spotted a flash of white in his back garden.
The keen photographer grabbed his camera and fired off a few shots before the critter disappeared over a fence.
Jamie then set up his camera to film the white squirrel just in time to capture it darting through the trees by his home in Narborough.
Albinism is caused by a genetic condition that reduces melanin and affects around one in a million grey squirrels.