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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 10, 2015 8:50:15 GMT -5
The third squirrel is a gray squirrel. The second appears to be a red squirrel. Black and gray are the same species, just different colors.
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Post by jamesp on Oct 10, 2015 9:10:36 GMT -5
The third squirrel is a gray squirrel. The second appears to be a red squirrel. Black and gray are the same species, just different colors. I see Rob. Was trying to do a size comparison. Found a better one, two fox squirrels and a gray. Photos by LAtrapper(lower Alabama)
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 10, 2015 12:27:13 GMT -5
You must have different squirrels down in Georgia than we have up here in Michigan. Those fox squirrels in your last picture don't look anything like the fox squirrels here. Your four squirrel picture looks exactly like the four types here. Fox, red, gray, black. Our fox squirrels are red colored. They are a bit heavier than the gray/black squirrels, but not as different in size as what you show in your last picture. The exception is fox squirrels on college campuses. Campuses that I've been on seem to have mostly fox squirrels and they're very well fed. Here's a picture of my daughter with her first squirrel. I had the rare experience of limiting out on squirrels a few years ago, so I took a picture. Four blacks and a gray. At the end of this video, you can see some Michigan State campus squirrels. My daughter used to go to the state Science Olympiad tournament there every spring and my son and I would spend the day doing urban unicycling.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 10, 2015 18:40:53 GMT -5
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Post by snowmom on Oct 11, 2015 5:27:52 GMT -5
the only meat my mom's family had during the depression was squirrel and an occasional rabbit. whatever grandpa could shoot. She didn't like squirrel much....
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2015 4:19:55 GMT -5
Jugglerguy. We have a grey squirrel, consistent in color unless albino(or white) which is rare. The only albinos(or white)squirrels I ever seen were here around my farm. And they seemed to have disappeared in the past 15 years. Grey squirrel similar across the SE US. The fox squirrel(sqiurus niger) has a lot of variety of colors here. Black/white/gray/brown/gold/reddish and mixed patterns of all those colors. Rarely one color. And they are not near as common and mostly in S.Georgia. Pretty sure they trapped them to small populations due to the crop damage they cause. When I lived in Canada many colors of squirrels about the same size as grey squirrels. black/red/grey, all solid colors. Looks like you have a master hunter in your daughter. Used to hunt them with Sheridan air rifles and did squirrel fricassee. Oh yea
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2015 5:07:45 GMT -5
snowmom The peat bogs (where carnivorous plants often grow) have a crazy variety of tiny flowers and several orchids. Plants 'growth stunted' by the nutrition deficiency. Need to carry the camera to such habitats but they are not travel/camera friendly. The carnivorous plants are the only peat crop. Having traded and purchased so many over the years from peat territories a crazy assortment of such plants reap havoc as weeds in the pots of carnivorous plants. ex. scnitt loaf After 25 years of keeping damp peat in pots It attracts it's own category of plants. This is a 100' X 150' constructed wetland that has a dam and piped water feed from a creek The water level can be controlled from 0-48" deep. Let it dry down in the late summer to mow it. It finally has about 8 inches of peat. starting to get crazy peat bog plants in it, not intentionally. I never flood it, just keep the water table a couple of inches below soil level. Sometimes I burn it, a natural process in peat country. It was built by the county. Kinda illegally using their heavy equipment. They were putting a turnaround at my mailbox. And I donated the soil/clay off my property for the turnaround construction. They were here 2 months. So they had "training classes" for their employees on the track hoes. They built a couple of these. Guessing $5000 worth of work each. Probably twice that. They removed giant trees etc, it was a big job. Anyway, I got a big sunny level controlled wetland and an illegally diverted creek out of it. The supervisor was into bamboo. So I gave him a whole bunch of it. Crooked rascals I tell you. A stand of yellow eyed grass took up in it. I sent you some. wetland in winter, darker brown patches are dormant yellow eyed grass(from images, mine not this dense yet but close) fresh dug clump bulb density after washing Xyris in bloom, later in summer
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Post by snowmom on Oct 12, 2015 5:19:23 GMT -5
beautiful! The plants are all taking off. I had a couple wilt with the shock of the cold weather they shipped in, the dark and the new water/soil, but the root systems stayed intact and everything is greening up and already sending new shoots.. its going to be a nice green winter here because of you. Thanks again!
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Post by jamesp on Oct 12, 2015 6:16:35 GMT -5
Good luck ! Keep an eye on the opium poppies
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Post by riverrock on Oct 12, 2015 8:38:58 GMT -5
Went to thanksgiving dinner and I had a squirrel on my plate.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Oct 12, 2015 11:21:05 GMT -5
Right after I snapped that picture, I realized that we had squirrel placemats on the table behind her.
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