mickle44

how many of you have ever seen one? this is a first for me

DTC

I have seen a few, my buddy killed one of few years ago. Congrats on a pretty colored squirrel. Are you going to have it mounted???

mickle44

its not mine its rob915 he is going to mount it

Pygmy

Where are you hunting..??..

Black squirrels are just a melanistic color phase of the grey squirrrel... Same species, different color phase.. In some places they are quite rare..In other places they are common or even dominant...

Examples...Where I live in western NY, they are fairly common, but not exactly an everyday occurance... I have seen as many as 2 or 3 in one day of hunting, but often I might hunt a couple of weeks and see hundreds of grey squirrels but no black squirrels..

In an area where I used to hunt deer in northern Mckean Co. Pa, black squirrels were very common...I would see them along with grey squirrels in about a 50/50 ratio...

In Prince Edward Co. Ontario, where I hunt gobblers every spring with a buddy who lives there, nearly ALL the squirrels are black.. I can't remember ever seeing a grey one up there..

Cal-MI

Yes. The grey squirrel species are about 20% black around here. In Holland MI they are all black.

Kid

I have seen only a few in a lifetime of Squirrel hunting here in Southwest Illinois.

joshen520

in my 22 years of life and many many years in the woods i have only seen one black squirrel in NJ and it was while i was drivin

Caleb T

Nice squirrel. I actually just saw one in my back yard tonight. I was getting ready to shoot my 16GA, and was wishing I had a .22 . They are fairly common around me ,I live in Upstate NY.

PAThwacker

Black squirrels are pretty common in NEPA. Probably 1 black for every 10 gray.

NatureBoy09

I use to see them all the time when i use to live in NW Pa, my uncle actually has a white (not albino) squirl mounted that he shot years back. Don't see many up here in NY, lot of greys, not many fox squirrels or black squirrels here.