The Orange Squirrel

has anyone ever shot a fox squirrel that has been this orange in color? my little brother shot it a few weeks ago, were getting it mounted for him.

Theimer- No you are right pine squirrels are much smaller and a different species. The fox squirrels seem to be fairly common around southern wisconsin.

Cajuncheese are you trying to call the squirrel in the pic a pine/red squirrel? because the one in the pic is definitely a fox squirrel. Pine/red squirrels are the size of a chipmunk. In florence where i hunt there are ton of red squirrels and i try to bait them in to my stand. Then try to harvest one with my knife. They are easy to kill not very skittish at all. The red squirrels are getting more common in Columbia/Sauk county where I hunt also. I also see a decent amount of dark phase gray squirrels Or black squirrels as you call them in Columbia/Sauk county.

Those fox squirrels are fairly common in Wisconsin. They seem to like to live in woods next to cornfields and also around gray squirrels. I could be wrong but I believe they are a totally different species. Then you have the pine squirrels that live in Northern Wisconsin. They seem to be smaller and pretty easy to bag since I'm not sure they are all that pressured. When I lived in LaCrosse I had seen a quite a few black squirrels. They were size of gray but all black. Some of them even had a whited tip on the tail. Pretty cool. I always wanted to mount one of them. What's even rarer are white squirrels. I have only seen a few of them all my life. Probably albino. Any one else have any unusual squirrel sightings???

Me and my buddy have shot quite a few of them pretty much the same color. We have got more Fox squirrels than gray's this year and they are a lot easier to spot in the trees and they are no where near as skiddish as all the grays we have seen and they are usually twice as big as the grays. But from what I've seen this color is not unusual.

Where I bow hunt I see them that color. one out of every five fox squirrels.