It's strange here. At the house we have nothing but gray squirrels. 20 miles south at a place we trap... nothing but fox squirrels.

They're segregated in the south.

Away from them Canadians!

In the past, fox squirrels seem to be found only in the farmlands of western Pennsylvania . However, in the past ten years or so , been seeing them in the heavily forested areas of the Allegheny National Forest. Never saw one in eastern PA when I lived there for 14 years.

I like the little grays over fox squirrels for eating although I do come accross a a fox squirrel here every once in a while and I will shoot it out. Little greys are easier skinning too

Here in Ohio there are fox squirrels in the woods and gray squirrels in town.

I've seen fox squirrels in town but I've never seen a gray squirrel in the woods.

In Michigan any ways I see most fox squirrels in close approx. to agricultural areas. But it is still common to shoot grays, blacks and fox squirrel in the same woods same hunt, at least in Michigan. In Texas I shot a lot fox squirrels around pecan trees. They all taste good and taste better when shot in the head with a 22, not full of bird shot. Our season opens on the 15 of this month. Always a tough call to go catch yellow perch or shoot squirrels.

I think they all took up residence along the river here. Thick with them.

I can show you a ton of greys down here in SE Ohio

Hal, no whining but I thought they were a color phase of the reds we used to have around here. These are substantially smaller then the Fox we've had around here in the past. I live in the middle of a 60 acre hardwoods, mature trees with plenty of mast for them so lack of food doesn't make sense for the small size.

boncoon, if the blacks I am seeing here at a color phase of the grey then that would explain the disappearance. I used to kill every red I saw to keep them from doing the same thing. These blacks just made the transition over the last coupe of years. Very quickly.

Anyways, I'll fry some up and fix the gravy craving!

I grew up in Battle Creek michigan

This info from Wikipedia is what I was told as a 7 year old boy in the 1970s


Black squirrel near Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan
In the United States, the city of Kent, Ohio developed a significant black squirrel population after ten were legally imported from Canada in February 1961 by Larry Woodell, the head groundskeeper at Kent State University. They have driven out native squirrels in many areas, though they peacefully coexist with most other rodent wildlife.[10]

Black squirrels are well established in the Quad Cities area along the Iowa-Illinois boundary. According to one story, recounted in the book The Palmers, they were first introduced on the Rock Island Arsenal Island. Some of them then escaped by jumping across ice floes on the Mississippi River when it was frozen, and thus populated other areas in Rock Island.[11] In Council Bluffs, Iowa, there is a sizeable population of black fox squirrels, where the animal is the town mascot.[12] Black squirrels are also found nearby in Iowa City. Black squirrels occur in increasing abundance in the cities of Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska, and in the surrounding areas where eastern gray squirrels are not found.[13][14][15]

Black squirrels are abundant in Battle Creek, Michigan, and, according to legend, were first introduced there by Will Keith Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Company, in an effort to destroy the local population of red squirrels. The story continues that this same population of squirrels was further introduced to the campus of Michigan State University by John Harvey Kellogg for the same purpose.[16] This story was corrected by Wilbur C. "Joe" Johnson, the late chief wildlife biologist at M.S.U.'s Kellogg Biological Station near Battle Creek which includes W.K. Kellogg's former 32-acre estate at Gull Lake. Johnson, who worked at K.B.S. for 48 years, credited Dr. John Harvey Kellogg for introducing the black squirrel to the Kellogg estate during the 1930s. Johnson said he himself trapped 20 black squirrels at Gull Lake during the early 1960s at the specific request of former MSU president John A. Hannah and released them on the East Lansing campus.[17]

Was told also the were brought from over seas, But I don't know, but the "black squirrel" does not seem to be like the others in that it will drive off the little red or pine squirrels Just some info

There’s a lot of fox squirrels around here on the mountains that are along the agricultural fields. Last year while bow hunting I saw a pretty good sized one I wouldn’t mind getting mounted.