If a squirrel just appears near me, I usually don't mind it. Its the ones that approach through 30 yards of woods to get to me and the ones that really make me mad. I think they practice how to sound like a slowing moving deer!! Last season I didn't see any on one stand and my last night hunting, right at dark I hear the leaves cracking from 2 different directions. I have my gun up ready for a shot, and wouldn't you know, both were black squirrels. Boy was I mad![:@]