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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 17:56:16 GMT -5
I`ve been shocked as I`ve deer hunting this current season. I had always read that gray squirrels were prominent in the southern part of the Hoosier state, because they much prefer vast tracts of timber, and don`t like and don`t do well in the small woodlots and broken timber in the agricultural areas. But as I`ve deer hunted this season, so far, I`ve seen a fair amount of grays in the small woodlot I`m deer hunting. About a third as many grays as fox squirrels. Very cool since I prefer grays.
Anyone else seeing this?
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Post by schall53 on Nov 27, 2019 11:05:05 GMT -5
Northern part of the state, small woodlots, never have seen a gray squirrel.
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Post by moose1am on Nov 27, 2019 12:20:15 GMT -5
SouthWestern Evansville, IN part of the State. I have a mixture of Gray and Fox squirrels. The Grays live in our Maple trees on a one-acre plot of land. (We have about 6 mature Maple tree over 60 years old). The Gray squirrels are producing two litters a year. We have four new young grays running around the maple tree in the back yard. The spring litter dispersed and is in the front yard. Behind our house, there is another home with 3 acres and they have all kinds of 20-year-old trees. Lots of oaks and pecans in their trees. I see lots of Fox squirrels in the wood lot behind our house. Across the street is a dense woods and there are lots of Fox Squirrels in that woods.
We never had any gray squirrels in your yard or the neighborhood in the past. They arrived about 3 years ago and are holding their own against the fox squirrels. I've seen the Fox squirrels come into your yard and the Grays will fight with them and win the fight. The Fox squirrels leave and go back to the other areas away from our yard. When I went to Purdue and studied wildlife biology I thought I remembered learning that the Fox squirrels were dominate but that's not the case in our yard.
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Post by esshup on Nov 27, 2019 13:42:10 GMT -5
I saw (and shot) a bunch of grey squirrels the past few days at a friends house. The little buggers had chewed a hole in the soffit and were making a home up in the attic.
In Chicago, I'd rarely see a Fox squirrel, only Greys.
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Post by deadeer on Nov 28, 2019 3:10:17 GMT -5
My urban spot in Michigan City has a good population of grays.
Grays clean, cook, and eat so much better than fox squirrels. You can fry em like chicken.
Down south and east where my wife has kin folk, they wont hardly ever shoot a fox squirrel. But they sure do love their grays. It's on the dinner table at every meal.
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Post by featherduster on Nov 28, 2019 9:08:36 GMT -5
The area around Michigan City,Indiana has all three RED, GRAY, and BLACK.
The black ones look like a cat when they are running around someones yard.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 10:06:01 GMT -5
My urban spot in Michigan City has a good population of grays. Grays clean, cook, and eat so much better than fox squirrels. You can fry em like chicken. Down south and east where my wife has kin folk, they wont hardly ever shoot a fox squirrel. But they sure do love their grays. It's on the dinner table at every meal. I`ve always thought that about Grays too, always passed on fox squirrels once I had grays. |
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Post by squirrelhunter on Dec 13, 2019 14:33:43 GMT -5
Here in the Northeast part of the State the only place I ever see Grays are in town. Out here in the rural area of the County I've never seen grays,just fox and red/piny squirrels.
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Post by ms660 on Dec 15, 2019 0:32:13 GMT -5
35 years ago I seldom saw any gray all fox squirrels where I grew up in Pike and Gibson counties, but now I see both about the same
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Post by omegahunter on Dec 16, 2019 13:47:53 GMT -5
When I was 15 and just learning how to hunt squirrels, it was a rare thing to see a gray squirrel. 32 years later, I shoot far more grays than I do fox squirrels in the same areas that I learned to hunt squirrels. I also kill a fair share of hybrids each year, so they are not totally exclusive.
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Post by parson on Dec 17, 2019 7:46:54 GMT -5
Lots of gray and fox around New Castle.
The wife & I visited union city the other day, and I was surprised to see little black squirrels running around the downtown area.
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 17, 2019 22:00:28 GMT -5
About 14 years ago here were exclusively Fox and pine.
Now it's mostly greys in black and a occasional fox or piney.
I'm between Mc and La Porte ,not many farm fields around.
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Post by surveyor on Dec 18, 2019 10:53:21 GMT -5
I grew up in the 70's and 80's in Morgan county and always did a lot of squirrel hunting-much more then than now. I'm kind of at the foot of the hill with wooded hills to the North and West and flat ground that leads to the river bottoms to the South and East. Used to be all fox squirrels in the bottoms and a mix of fox and Gray in the hills. Rarely ever saw a Gray up close to the house, but go up the hill 300 yards and there was several of them. In the last maybe 10-15 years the Gray's have really taken over around my house. They are even all over the river bottoms now and far out number the Fox squirrel now. Strange how things change.
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Post by jbird on Dec 19, 2019 13:46:31 GMT -5
My folks place in Ripley county as both....my place in Decatur county only has fox squirrels.
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Post by budd on Dec 21, 2019 10:18:27 GMT -5
People up here think Im crazy when I ask to shoot a few greys out of their yards to eat. I only find them around houses and bird feeders, have never seen one in the big woods up here. We have a lot of blacks also.
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Post by swilk on Dec 29, 2019 22:23:59 GMT -5
35 years ago I seldom saw any gray all fox squirrels where I grew up in Pike and Gibson counties, but now I see both about the same Same. I grew up hunting in Gibson county and don't recall seeing many greys years ago. Now, on my farm in Gibson I kill a grey just about every time I hunt them. Still more fox but greys are there. Killed each in the same tree numerous times. |
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