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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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.

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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!!!

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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.

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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.

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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!

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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.

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    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.

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    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.

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    Default Re: black squirrels

    black and red squirrels are all over the place here!

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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

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    Default Re: black squirrels

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