Bull_Rope
Light Foot
Reged: 05/29/08
Posts: 36
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Years back I used to hunt in the San Saba area. I remember seeing a species of black squirrel that was larger than your normal squirrel. it also had long tufts of black hair off the tips of its ears. I was wondering, Is anybody still seeing these critters. And if so, how big is their range in Texas?
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AB Joint Outfitters
Woodsman
Reged: 06/16/06
Posts: 207
Loc: San Antonio, Texas
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Some of them live under my house here just 20miles west of Austin! I don't know about their range, this is the only place I see them.
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txtrophy85
Veteran Tracker
Reged: 08/12/05
Posts: 3205
Loc: San Antonio
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just a different color variation....but there called rock squirrels, because they life around cliffs, mainly in the hill country
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Seadog
Pro Tracker
Reged: 09/26/07
Posts: 1220
Loc: East Texas
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I don't know about range but I have seen them at my deer lease in East Texas, (Tyler county)!!!
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dawaba
Woodsman
Reged: 10/22/06
Posts: 183
Loc: DFW, Throckmorton Co., Anderso...
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I believe melanistic versions of both fox and gray squirrels are known to turn up occasionally. Not a different species, just a different race.
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NETxHunter
Tracker
Reged: 10/27/06
Posts: 597
Loc: Longview, Tx--Gregg County
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I got a picture of a black squirrel off of my trail cam last year in Gregg County(North East Tx).
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Tx_Phantom
Pro Tracker
Reged: 12/05/06
Posts: 1984
Loc: Fort Worth, TX
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What? No Phantom/Squirrel joke?
I guess nobody on here loves me anymore. 
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Seadog
Pro Tracker
Reged: 09/26/07
Posts: 1220
Loc: East Texas
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Its still early yet!!!  
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impson00
Outdoorsman
Reged: 12/31/07
Posts: 61
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These are rock squirls and are not a rare melonistic squirl. They are totaly different species of squirl. See below.
Rock Squirl
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Pigsniper
Light Foot
Reged: 06/02/08
Posts: 30
Loc: Cedar Park, TX
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We have them at our lease in San Saba, yes they eat corn 
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colt45
Tracker
Reged: 08/19/06
Posts: 944
Loc: bastrop county
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I used to see those on the Steiner ranch west of austin
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cuzican
Light Foot
Reged: 06/19/08
Posts: 20
Loc: Texas
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I have seen them on our hill country lease, they live in the rock walls that were built years ago to keep cattle out of the peanut fields. They seem to be about the size of a big red
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BuckManager
Light Foot
Reged: 06/04/08
Posts: 22
Loc: Lampasas
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I've seen them from Junction to Austin to Belton. Rock squirrels are found throughout the hill country.
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OFBHWG
Pro Tracker
Reged: 09/14/04
Posts: 1270
Loc: McKINNEY, TEXAS
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THERE ARE TONS OF BLACK SQUIRRELS IN AND AROUND NACOGDOCHES LUFKIN CROCKETT PENNINGTON AREA.
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TexasRick
Green Horn
Reged: 06/28/08
Posts: 5
Loc: Chester, Texas (East Texas - T...
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I also live in East Texas (Tyler County) and we have a lot of black fox squirrels. These are totally different than the rock squirrels found in central Texas.
It is a semi-rare color phase of the normal fox squirrel but apparently is heriditary. In the immediate areas where you find black squirrels, they are very common.....even though uncommon overall.
Question???? Are the rock squirrels in the central part of the state any good to eat? I've been told they were not, but they look like just another squirrel to me......no personal experience with their table fare.
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cbump
THF Trophy Hunter
Reged: 12/02/06
Posts: 5264
Loc: Weatherford
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They were everywhere in Illinois.
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helomech
Extreme Tracker
Reged: 11/14/07
Posts: 3700
Loc: Latexo, tx
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Quote:
THERE ARE TONS OF BLACK SQUIRRELS IN AND AROUND NACOGDOCHES LUFKIN CROCKETT PENNINGTON AREA.
I see them by my gate all the time in Houston county.
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Team Hillbilly
Extreme Tracker
Reged: 08/08/06
Posts: 3807
Loc: Lake Sam Rayburn Texas
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Yup we have them all around Sam Rayburn lake, you don't see them everyday, but they are there.
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AdgerC15
Tracker
Reged: 10/22/07
Posts: 986
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chupacabra?
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whby05
Tracker
Reged: 08/22/06
Posts: 720
Loc: Big Town of Krum, Tx
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i have hunted them in louisianna with my grandad, i had one taxi'd for the wife..........she thought it was cute...
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Kawabuggy
Woodsman
Reged: 01/14/08
Posts: 204
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I posted a while back asking about a large squirrel that I saw while hunting.. No one could identify what the heck I was talking about. Now that I see this picture of a black squirrel-I would have to say that this is what I saw in the woods that day. I know now that I was not imagining things.
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pineywoodshunter
Woodsman
Reged: 11/11/07
Posts: 160
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we have a few down north of houston
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