Took a 104 yr. old lady for a walk…

[MarketHunter]

Bill,

It's odd that the blacks act so differently in your area. They really aren't a different species of squirrel, they're usually just a melanistic color phase of the local population. On the Eastern Shore they have an oddball squirrel species that's dark colored but I believe the mainland ones are just standard.


Destry

[Big D]

I understood that grays and blacks are geneticaly the same - like yellow and black Labs

[charlie cleveland]

the blacks i have seen have been of larger size than gray...the black were as large as the fox squirl.... charlie

[Double Trouble]

We have some black squirrels in my area (PA), but as others have already stated - they are just gray squirrels with black fur. (Some are actually a very dark brown - almost black, but look black from a distance...)

However, I was vacationing in Ontario a few years back and I saw black squirrels up there. They did not look the same as our gray/black local squirrels. They looked a tiny bit bigger, had taller ears, and seemed more spastic.

[Autumn Daze]

Here in Connecticut it grey's all the way with an albino mixed in every so often.

[Double Trouble]

I've seen albinos here too, but very few ! Black squirrels are much more common (although neither are "common").

[Dick Miller]

Destry,
When we lived on the Eastern Shore ( Chestertown) we saw them fairly frequently and they were protected at the time-----Delmarva Fox Squirrels ! Lots of "pintos".

[Blind Dog]

Hunting the wiley grouse in Montmorency, Oscoda and Ogama Counties, MI, I have come across many small (smaller than local foxies) black squirrels and no other kind. They also have huge white bunnies, dang near as big as the dog; always carry a couple rounds of #3 buck in case of a charge.