black squirrels

[tedicast]

There are 2 areas near my home, where it is very common to see black squirrels. As for hunting them, I don't see why you couldn't, as they are just a color variation of a grey squirrel. Where I normally see them are in residential areas though. I have never seen one while hunting.

[ZooBear]

We have a few black squirrel here, but they are Fox squirrels not greys.

[fisherguy]

MOst of the squirrels in southern ontario are black, but nobody seems to hunt them.

[LifeNRA]

I have seen black and red squirrels. Although, the game commission says there are flying squirrels I have not seen any of them.

[tedicast]

Why did this post get moved to varmint and predator hunting room? Wouldn't the upland and small game room be where it belongs?

[NY911Bowhunter]

I used to work in Yonkers, which is a large urban city that borders the Bronx (you know, DA BRONX!).

I was working one of my first tours with a guy who lived there all his life, and I saw a bunch of BLACK squirrels!!!!

Never saw a gray squirrel - all black ones.

You don't even wanna know what they called them!!!

[huntinsonovagun]

I have seen one from a stand I hunted 2 years ago. I saw him several times I went there. Certain areas have lots of them. They are just have a dominant melanistic gene I guess.

[DSGB]

We have fox squirrels that are black. Some all black, some grey with a black head, but most are black with a tiny white spot on their nose. Cool animals for sure.

[Jeramie]

Yep, we have them. I have one I want to get mounted. Its actually a fox squirrel with a black underside.

Its pretty cool. Everywhere he is suppose to have orange (red) is actually black. I also hunt in another area and I saw a black squirrel all the time (solid black). I finally went back to get him but never saw him again. Im afraid he cashed in him chips. To bad, he would have made an awesome mount!

[turkeygirl]

I see black squirrels once in awhile on campus and alot in cities. I rarely see them in the actual wilderness of the woods but I can say I did shoot a wild black squirrel which was cool.

[Tominator]

you're seeing the melanistic phase of the gray squirrel.

around here you can shoot them. never have seen them in the woods. i have at parks and in the neighborhoods. we have a local town here that has a population of them and albinos.

[carbonhunter]

Where is muggs when i need him. I went to kent state university home of the all black squirrel. i kid you not there where hundreds of them and they where def. black 365 a year.

[Shaun_300]

black and red squirrels are all over the place here!

[Tominator]

Yep, just another color phase of the gray squirrel is all.

[too_pointer]

Probably half of them around here are black. I guess it depends on the area.
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