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Around here anyway, this AM's group--not unusual anymore...:) [img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p37/tomk-album/IMG_1029_zpskcuz4ebn.jpg) [/img]
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Have seen the odd one here and there. Never seen a group of them.
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The black ones really gather around when there is free stuff!
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It looks innocent enough but watch out. If the feeder starts getting tagged with graffiti and squirrel gang names like "da nutz", it will be too late.
They're bad enough but soon the raccoons will come in and try to take over that turf and you'll have driveby's (or pitter patter by's) and worse...
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The black ones really gather around when there is free stuff!  Would like to get a blk one mounted,there are in a few different areas around here.
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The stuff has been free herefor so long that none of the greys, blacks, or fox do much nut gathering anymore, just hang and scratch 'em.
It does give my GSD plenty to do and a good reason to stay close.
Webster: the last ten years, the numbers have grown in this area. Interestingly, there are a few all chocolate colored greys as well.
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Black ones are few and far between here. I think I've shot 4 of them in 40 years of avid squirrel hunting. Got a black one with a red tail back 30 years or so ago. Had him mounted and he's hanging in my living room.
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Coon-wise, I shoot them after dark out of a bedroom window...:)
BTW Gents, after trying for many years that is the best application I have found for a Direct TV dish. It finally works! Birds love it.
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I don't know that much about them, but we had a black/red this spring. We just thought the greys with white tails or the blacks with red tails, were pups.
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I don't know that much about them, but we had a black/red this spring. We just thought the greys with white tails or the blacks with red tails, were pups. This one ain't a pup. Full grown and bigger than average.
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We have the Tufted Ear Aberts squirrel here. Quit a few. Sometimes they will breed with fox squirrel
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what do the offspring look like?
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what do the offspring look like? Mostly chocolate color, but Fox Squirrel size.The fox squirrels will push the Aberts squirrel out of the areas as they are twice as big. The Aberts eat only pine bark (young tender shoots and bark. The fox squirrels get into everything ,looking for grain and such. Many years ago,growing up in PA,we would encounter a few black squirrels. I believe those were just a color phase of the Fox Squirel.The Aberts is a separate species
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I've seen them, black squirrels, in the Bronx New York, believe it or not.Housing projects, you know where they live for free.well, our tax dollars pay for them not the squirrels the bones,it was so funny. I saw a peregrine falcon grab a pigeon Land 20 feet from me and devour it. The brothers walking around none of them ever even noticed it.
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