old man Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 A very frosty morning here. Sat for 2 hours nothing around, nothing gone from feeders. Just about to pack up when a kitt came in on the ground from my blindside left to within 6 feet of my feet to a bird feeder, winding me it upped and left the same way without stopping. Hopefully will meet it next week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 7 hours ago, ratchers said: saw a squirrel at the base of the tree where the flip top is and watched it finally take a peanut, right just sit still.......what its off.......did it see me.....is it the same one from yesterday, but its gone in a different direction.......back to waiting and hoping Very similar for me this morning, I got in in the dark and was at the feeder for 745, watched the wood come awake and the birds arrived to whirl around the feeders. Around 815 I had a scan and spotted a squirrel at my 8 o'clock, no chance of me changing position so I just have to hope it makes its way around. Maybe ten more minutes of bird watching and taking sneaky looks to my left when like magic there's a squirrel bellow the feeder, it was up and down in a flash, paused on the wall, almost giving me the finger then gone!! Couldn't believe it. 5 minutes Maybe 10 and from the left again up comes another or the same squirrel, slowly this time, onto the feeder and settles to feed, WHACK and it just rolled off the ledge, then flipped around. I gave it another 30 mins but saw nothing else, I walked over to the other feeder but saw no more squirrels, but did see two glowing dreys. Off the mark with a big chunky male, he was very ready for spring. He was in this position on the feeder, JSB Heavy through the top of the head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 13, 2022 Report Share Posted January 13, 2022 Thank you, improving fast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Turned up to the wood this morning-1 , hard frost squirrels everywhere but I think they were more interested in mating than eating managed 2 in five minutes, then people working on an oil pipe line started work and the shoot on the estate next door fired up , managed 3 in 3 hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Showing the same kiss chase activity here over the garden boundary 5 in view at once. 23 hours ago, Walker570 said: Thank you, improving fast. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 2 hours ago, sam triple said: Turned up to the wood this morning-1 , hard frost squirrels everywhere but I think they were more interested in mating than eating managed 2 in five minutes, then people working on an oil pipe line started work and the shoot on the estate next door fired up , managed 3 in 3 hours You squirrel shooting in Afghanistan?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Mice! said: You squirrel shooting in Afghanistan?? Felt like it , new pipe line going thru the farm from Thorley to Heathrow , and estate next door had a pheasant shoot on today part of which borders the wood I shoot in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 14, 2022 Report Share Posted January 14, 2022 Found a PW member today who is whacking tree rats and not logging them ....advised. He is a nice guy an didn't know about the annual count up. Must be others as well so check around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 Can no longer log kill numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 What's the problem I just clicked on the last entry and up it all came. Sad to say didn't have any to log. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 6 hours ago, sam triple said: Can no longer log kill numbers It's further down mate, hasn't been pinned yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Mice! said: It's further down mate, hasn't been pinned yet 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted January 15, 2022 Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 Well I was out early this morning into a new wood where I had put a couple of feeders up. Both had been used so I settled in my shelter in front of the big feeder. Waited 30 minutes then saw a Red coming down the larch where the feeder was placed. No sign of greys. I’ll check again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2022 7 hours ago, Fisheruk said: Well I was out early this morning into a new wood where I had put a couple of feeders up. Both had been used so I settled in my shelter in front of the big feeder. Waited 30 minutes then saw a Red coming down the larch where the feeder was placed. No sign of greys. I’ll check again tomorrow. Have you not put up a camera or any sticky pads? Be nice to just have reds 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Well at last , my first of the year. And one more today , but Peanut the dog hid it somewhere . Wheres the total for 22? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 22 minutes ago, Longbower said: Wheres the total for 22? Same place further down the page, they haven't been pinned yet for some reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Either we are having an effect on numbers on our areas or we just are not shooting enough. Present figure is 4 a day which is only about 1500 for the year, so need to treble that or more. Keep whacking and stacking and get others into it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted January 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Walker570 said: Either we are having an effect on numbers on our areas or we just are not shooting enough. Present figure is 4 a day which is only about 1500 for the year, so need to treble that or more. Keep whacking and stacking and get others into it as well. But it's January, with folk not seeing many, I had good success last year feb/March in one area while blanking in Jan. Then better success across a different area through june/July with quiet months either side. Plus most of us have been keeping the pressure on throughout the winter which means numbers should be low really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Good shot? Posted January 16, 2022 Report Share Posted January 16, 2022 Not seeing any currently. I too have seen more from February onwards (until June) in the past, so roll on February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 Reports from my Keeper friend in Lincolnshire says there are still too many although between us we have taken out more than 150 in three months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 On 16/01/2022 at 17:42, Longbower said: Well at last , my first of the year. And one more today , but Peanut the dog hid it somewhere . Wheres the total for 22? Have you got a different cylinder on that bsa fella? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted January 17, 2022 Report Share Posted January 17, 2022 (edited) Yes mate , an Airtech extended tube , HW silencer and Huma reg. All the Air gun I will ever need. Loads of shots. I have a HW110 , And a Huntsman Regal FAC, but the Scorpion is my Fave. Edited January 17, 2022 by Longbower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted January 18, 2022 Report Share Posted January 18, 2022 11 hours ago, Longbower said: Yes mate , an Airtech extended tube , HW silencer and Huma reg. All the Air gun I will ever need. Loads of shots. I have a HW110 , And a Huntsman Regal FAC, but the Scorpion is my Fave. 😁👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchers Posted January 19, 2022 Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 Was out at dawn to the big house where I got one last week, waited in the cover of a tree for an hour ready to ambush but nothing moved so I went round the back of the house to the other flip top, again nothing moved apart from a biting north wind which soon had me moving, it looked as though this feeder is the one to cover next time as it was empty. Off to the second permission where I had topped up the feeder the previous week, nothing on the house bird feeders where I have seen them before and nothing on the flip top, as I can't sneak up to it I'm pleased to get in position with nothing in sight, before I do I have to fill it as it is empty and I put a few nuts out for the songbirds. Just about right away as though it had been watching a greedy jay comes and gobbles the lot up, drat they were for the little uns and I don't have permission on any quarry apart from greys here. The jay was back and forward a few times and even turned up with his or her mate. Had been there for an hour and a half and was gonna give it another half hour whan I spotted a squirrel on a branch, should I take a 30 yard shot or wait for it to come to the feeder, as the wind was gusting I waited, after a chew on something it came down the branch on to the ground towards the feeder, at the base of the tree where the flip top was the grey rootled around in the dirt where no doubt it could smell the nuts the jay had nicked, whether it sensed me or not it stood up meerkat like and looked right at me 20 yards away but I was in position and phutt......lights out. That will do me...lets go home and get warmed through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted January 19, 2022 Report Share Posted January 19, 2022 I would be having a quiet word with the owner aboiut the jays. They are as bad if not worse than tree rats for destroying our songbird populations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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