re: Ever seen a blonde piebald raccoon?

I thought he had tusks in your first pic.

Pretty cool!

Piebald applies to any animal that has un - pigmented areas in their coat.
My neighbor killed a piebald buck(6pt) a few years ago.Head and neck were normal color,most of his body was white with some brown spots here and there.

I’ve gotten pictures of 2 different does on my property that were piebald.Strange thing is I only got one picture of each of them and never saw them while hunting.As far as I know no one ever killed them or word would likely got around the community.

Also some years ago my uncle had 2 piebald Fox squirrels in his yard.One had just a few white spots ,the other was about 1/2 white.
I wanted to shoot the 1/2 white one and get him mounted.He wouldn’t let me as he was hoping they would multiply.
As I expected they both soon disappeared,sure a hawk got them.

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it's not piebald...it's leucistic, sometimes referred to as blonde...a lot of people mistake leucistic animals for albino because they aren't familiar with leucism...

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Here's a Cardinal with the same genetic mutation.

Not my pic, but I remember seeing one from our area a few years ago being talked about.

that's a really pretty bird...the most "exotic" critter i've seen in a while is a very large male raccoon missing his front left paw

So this would be Michael Jackson if he was a coon?

I was wondering which term would apply here, it's definitely leucistic. Wasn't sure if piebald on the face at first but on closer inspection he does have a little pigment there, not absence of pigment. So that was a misnomer there, my bad.

I had a cardinal around my bird feeder that looked just like that for a whole year one time. Eventually he disappeared.

That Cardinal is really pretty,would be cool if it mutiplied.

Neat...this is the best "bug" I got today...gulf fritillary

I believe there’s typically one of these in every raccoon litter however you never see them because they stick out and predators get them when they’re young.