Took a 104 yr. old lady for a walk…

[MarketHunter]

Charlie,

My main squirrel hunting area is just fox squirrels for the most part. I've killed a couple of blacks in other spots since I've lived up here though. I'm going to really work at getting that white tipped one, it's at a friend of mine's place and she sees it regular.


Mike,

How are those big greys for eating? I've always favored grey over fox in the skillet, they just seem to have more flavor.



Destry

[Mike Stahle]

Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard

Charlie,

My main squirrel hunting area is just fox squirrels for the most part. I've killed a couple of blacks in other spots since I've lived up here though. I'm going to really work at getting that white tipped one, it's at a friend of mine's place and she sees it regular.


Mike,

How are those big greys for eating? I've always favored grey over fox in the skillet, they just seem to have more flavor.



Destry

The wife cooks them down in water, picks the meat off the bones, then makes potpie with the meat. Just like chicken potpie but better in my honest opinion.

[Bill Murphy]

The Blacks moved into my neighborhood about three years ago. They are very aggressive, run the greys off and tease the dogs like mockingbirds. When they come onto the decks, I immediately trap and relocate them. They are pretty destructive to the herb pots.

[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

[Bill Murphy]

These at my place are the ones that were planted at the National Zoo many years ago, specifically, eight of them in 1902, and a few more in 1906. They were transplanted from the Rondeau Provincial Park in Morpeth, Ontario. They took many years to get to my area about 30 miles north of the zoo. Organizations who follow such things report that none had been sighted and reported within miles of here just a couple of years ago. Maybe we have some that were artificially transplanted. The ones I transplant are sent only a short distance from here. My Wirehair just hates them, but is less intolerant of the greys.

[Big D]

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