I would recommend it! Here in Oregon's Willamette Valley, we have the big orange-tinted Fox Squirrel. I eat those regularly. I grew up eating the gray and the fox squirrels. Those two squirrels eat nuts and fruit and spend their time up off the ground. They are, by far, a cleaner, more disease-free meat than wild rabbits or hares.
Here's an interesting nugget about those gray squirrels: back in the time of European settlement and even into the early 1900s, every few years, the gray squirrels would go on a mass migration. Thousands and thousands moving across the forested landscape. There is some amazing reading about them. Squirrels are so interesting - I could go on and on, lol!
They haven't figured out why. The suspicion is a big acorn crop the year before that built populations up a lot. And then not enough food the next year. But the scale of the migrations was so large. In checking some history just now, my statement of thousands was way low -- some estimates of half a billion in one migration of the mid-1800s. I can't even imagine that.
I would recommend it! Here in Oregon's Willamette Valley, we have the big orange-tinted Fox Squirrel. I eat those regularly. I grew up eating the gray and the fox squirrels. Those two squirrels eat nuts and fruit and spend their time up off the ground. They are, by far, a cleaner, more disease-free meat than wild rabbits or hares.
Here's an interesting nugget about those gray squirrels: back in the time of European settlement and even into the early 1900s, every few years, the gray squirrels would go on a mass migration. Thousands and thousands moving across the forested landscape. There is some amazing reading about them. Squirrels are so interesting - I could go on and on, lol!
Migration? Like lemmings? Why? Too large a population? Or is it unknown why?
They haven't figured out why. The suspicion is a big acorn crop the year before that built populations up a lot. And then not enough food the next year. But the scale of the migrations was so large. In checking some history just now, my statement of thousands was way low -- some estimates of half a billion in one migration of the mid-1800s. I can't even imagine that.