It's not every day you get an albino squirrel rummaging around in your garden.

But that's what pensioner Freda Lancaster spotted last week when she was putting the bins out.

The 71-year-old, of Orchard Road, Swanscombe, saw the creature in her garden and has been taking photographs of it ever since.

She said: “I spotted him in the trees and ran in to get my camera.

"I like to take pictures of usual things, the sky, animals and stuff. He’s got lots to eat.

"I have seen him eating the red berries and I have an acorn tree in my back garden, so there is plenty for him and he’s been feeding very well.

"I have called him Snowflake and he has been spending his time running across the branches to other trees in my neighbours garden.

"We all love it that he's here.”

Although such white squirrels are commonly referred to as albinos, most of them are likely non-albino squirrels which exhibit a rare white fur colouration known as leucism which is as a result of a recessive gene found within certain grey squirrel populations.