That's cool. The white ones in Olney IL are albinos I think. Those you have are very unique.Cool! We have a population of white squirrels. They aren't albino. You can see the bit of gray stripe.
I would love to see some pics if you can get some. I was looking up squirrels on the internet today and apparently there are a lot of color variations. But I am sure the grays and fox, red squirrels are interbreeding here.Quite a few black squirrels around here, and I swear the red ones are cross-breeding with the chipmunks.
I've seen some pretty weird looking squirmunks/chipsquires around.
Might be able to get some pics, but the little bastages are pretty quick.
I've yet to see a white one, Kathleen.
I'm surprised you have only seen your first black squirrel there recently. I'm from Hartville and we have had them for as long as I can remember. Clinton is not that much further from Kent than Hartville.I'm originally from Grand Island, NY, where we had Grey and Red squirrels. I move to Ohio in "77" and met the big Fox squirrels, red with big bushy tails. Years ago, I think in the 70's, some Biology professor at Kent State released several Black squirrels onto the campus. They are very aggressive, and have been slowly expanding their territory out past Kent. I'm about 20 miles from there and saw my first one out here last week. Hunted and ate a lot of them critters when I was young back in NY. Tasty, but a bear to clean!
I'm surprised you have only seen your first black squirrel there recently. I'm from Hartville and we have had them for as long as I can remember. Clinton is not that much further from Kent than Hartville.
Nice to meet you as well, Sean HereClinton - ? - I live southeast of Kent in Diamond, over by Lake Milton. You're right though, I'm maybe twice as far as you from Kent, but still not very "far". 20 miles top. I too would have thought to see them sooner, maybe all the big fat fox squirrels that I have around here have just kept them out till now.
I'm always amazed at the local folks you meet via the internet! A day ago we were talking PPE one place, then talking squirrels here, and you live just a "short" distance away! Glad to meet you Swagler85, name is Mike "Boog" Powell.
Cool! We have a population of white squirrels. They aren't albino. You can see the bit of gray stripe.
I believe that's "piebald"Cool! We have a population of white squirrels. They aren't albino. You can see the bit of gray stripe.
I'm originally from Grand Island, NY, where we had Grey and Red squirrels. I move to Ohio in "77" and met the big Fox squirrels, red with big bushy tails. Years ago, I think in the 70's, some Biology professor at Kent State released several Black squirrels onto the campus. They are very aggressive, and have been slowly expanding their territory out past Kent. I'm about 20 miles from there and saw my first one out here last week. Hunted and ate a lot of them critters when I was young back in NY. Tasty, but a bear to clean!
I'm surprised you never saw any here. There are a lot on goat island and around Niagara
Falls and Lewiston.
That's a beautiful thing,especially when a dozen are simmering all day in a bottle of Chardonnay,a quart of chicken broth and some garlic,tastiest wild game in my opinion,quite a few black squirrels in my area,just a melanonic gray.PS yours is safe.This squirrel was in my son's front yard. There are some all black squirrels in Mahomet IL, the white squirrels of Olney IL, and I am now seeing gray squirrels around here that seem to have been breeding with the fox squirrels as the show varying degrees of red in there grey coat.
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I can skin a squirrel in 30 seconds clean as a whistle,no hair on the meat,if you need to know my trick shoot me a Pm,been hunting squirrels since age 6.I'm originally from Grand Island, NY, where we had Grey and Red squirrels. I move to Ohio in "77" and met the big Fox squirrels, red with big bushy tails. Years ago, I think in the 70's, some Biology professor at Kent State released several Black squirrels onto the campus. They are very aggressive, and have been slowly expanding their territory out past Kent. I'm about 20 miles from there and saw my first one out here last week. Hunted and ate a lot of them critters when I was young back in NY. Tasty, but a bear to clean!
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