Thanks folks, i had no idea they were that wide spread.
Thanks folks, i had no idea they were that wide spread.
I've been told by an old hunter that black squirrels are fox squirrels with a heavy walnut diet
Acorns produce that reddish color
And he suspected that those "grey colored" fox squirrels had a heavier diet of hickory nuts.
Now that's only a general thing. Varieties and genus' vary from one region to another.
The ones I hate are the small variety of red squirrels. They can tear a soffit apart in a couple of days.
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
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We have what we call Fox squirrels in north fla. They have lots of black, are bigger and seem slower than gray squirrels. I saw one very recently plodding across the road a few miles from my house.
Both the Fox Squirrel and Eastern Gray Squirrel often have melanistic sub-populations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_squirrel
donttread (01-15-2021)
Grays and reds in the cities and mountains here, places tree cover. In the sage scrub its ground squirrel.
Never a black or albino.
This reminds me that I haven't seen a flying squirrel in 50 years. Of course they were rarely sighted back then. The critter somehow got in our house. Huge eyes. Mom ushered it out unharmed.
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