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Post by cedarthicket on Jul 9, 2014 16:13:04 GMT -5
Has anyone else here seen a white-tailed fox squirrel? My wife and I have been seeing one every few days for the last month or so. Finally, I had a relatively inexpensive digital camera close by today when I saw the WT squirrel through our kitchen window. I zoomed in as best I could and pressed the camera against the window to steady it. This is not a professional picture by any means, but I was happy to get it.  |
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Post by michaeladkins on Jul 9, 2014 16:53:33 GMT -5
That is wild. I have not seen one of those.
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Post by maddog on Jul 10, 2014 6:28:34 GMT -5
Neat pic. If I shot one like that, during squirrel season, I'd have the hide tanned.
maddog
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Post by omegahunter on Jul 10, 2014 8:20:02 GMT -5
I have seen one on the other side of Washington a couple weeks ago and went out the back door the other day and saw one in my back yard. Two years ago I had a gray squirrel on the corncob feeder that had white ears. Also saw a fox squirrel in the city park many years ago that looked like it was wearing white pants, both hind legs were white.
I have been looking out the windows to try to see the white-tailed squirrel again, but haven't seen him since that first sighting.
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Post by Russ Koon on Jul 14, 2014 10:48:56 GMT -5
I've never seen one, and had never even heard of one with that particular variation until our family 4th of July get-together, when someone mentioned seeing more than one very recently. I don't remember now who it was that mentioned them or where they saw them, but they were surprised to see them and were asking some of us who hunt if we had seen any.
I have seen gray squirrels with large white dots on the back sides of their ears. That seems to be a regional variation that has become the norm in some parts of the state, mostly in the southern portion. Looks very strange to those of who grew up hunting grays without any such dots. Seems like it would be a disadvantage in nature, making them more easily spotted by predators.
Funny how some critters do take on regional differences. We noticed on our first family vacation to Wisconsin many years ago that the fox squirrels up there, at least the ones out in the western WI area near the lake we were fishing, were all black on the back and the topside of the tail, much like a black-and-tan hound dog.
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Post by firstwd on Jul 14, 2014 16:18:37 GMT -5
We have at least one at the gold camp this year, but have seen them in the city park for several years. Just weird.
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Post by goosepondmonster on Jul 14, 2014 17:28:19 GMT -5
I seem to recall an article in the Bton paper about them a few years back. I'll see if I can find it.
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Post by squirrelhunter on Jul 18, 2014 18:53:23 GMT -5
We have a lot of pure black squirrels in town and we've seen it several times that the front half is black and the back half looks like a fox squirrels,strange things can happen for sure.
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Post by drs on Jul 19, 2014 5:01:19 GMT -5
In the wild, anything genetically can happen. Most causes are due to inbreeding. I've seen Squirrels with no tails, also no fur on their tails. I've also have harvested several male Squirrels that had a tumor growth on their prostate, which would be, of course, cancerous.
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