The gray squirrel ... broadly tipped with white. Seasonal color variation is a function of fading and molting. Additional individual color variation results in brown, black, silvery-gray color phases.

The sighting took us down somewhat of a rabbit hole that landed us on a website for the city of Brevard, North Carolina, ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A white squirrel with a rare genetic condition ... Some leucistic squirrels will have white fur with a dorsal stripe of gray down the middle of their bodies.