I am a resident of Austin, Texas. I live in an urban area with woodland park access and plenty of trees, and see a lot of gregarious squirrels, body size hard to estimate. These squirrels run when approached, play constantly, and seem to congregate in areas with oaks and places to hide. There are ty…

Welcome to the Forum! I don’t know much about the behavioral aspect of squirrel species, I assume they all behave somewhat similarly. I’d recommend uploading an image to the site, and that way you can get a habitus identification, which will help you figure out the behavioral aspect.

I have lived in neighborhoods that have both gray and fox squirrels running around the yards. I would not say there is a huge difference in behavior, certainly nothing I would base an ID on.

Based on a search of Sciurus records from Travis Co. TX, looks like you have both species present but there are a lot more Fox Squirrel records than Eastern Gray. Fox Squirrels can be variable in belly color, not sure what they look like in Austin.

Red (Gray Squirrels?) of Austin Texas

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Red (Gray Squirrels?) of Austin Texas

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