arjimlad Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 I have been taking my Webley bolt-action .410 around when checking pheasant pens, and bopped three squirrels with it over the last few days. Very satisfying ! 1497 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted September 30, 2019 Report Share Posted September 30, 2019 Just one this afternoon 1498 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moondoggy Posted October 2, 2019 Report Share Posted October 2, 2019 One this morning 1499 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 4, 2019 Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/environment/the-royal-parks-squirrel-cull-1-6302058?fbclid=IwAR0pKXYdD9dwIIvAXmHofFRSQDjpxAenauxQ6DvhJUddLNwx9fmHt4XRJ3g Folk in the London bubble trying to stop squirrel control. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 Finally, the squirrel that's been teasing me wandered too far up the garden today, possibly a pregnant female. 1500 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 On 04/10/2019 at 19:57, Mice! said: https://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/environment/the-royal-parks-squirrel-cull-1-6302058?fbclid=IwAR0pKXYdD9dwIIvAXmHofFRSQDjpxAenauxQ6DvhJUddLNwx9fmHt4XRJ3g Folk in the London bubble trying to stop squirrel control. 15 protestors - that must be a record turnout for UR Ban squirrels! Soon I suspect they will no longer be licenced to release greys 😀 On a different note, In August, I was walking round the park in Chester. There were greys everywhere, then, I saw the Do not feed the squirrels signs, which warned that greys were so used to being hand fed that they were now jumping onto pushchairs and proms looking for food and that there were concerns that a child would be bitten or scratched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted October 7, 2019 Report Share Posted October 7, 2019 2 hours ago, Sciurus said: 15 protestors - that must be a record turnout for UR Ban squirrels! Soon I suspect they will no longer be licenced to release greys 😀 On a different note, In August, I was walking round the park in Chester. There were greys everywhere, then, I saw the Do not feed the squirrels signs, which warned that greys were so used to being hand fed that they were now jumping onto pushchairs and proms looking for food and that there were concerns that a child would be bitten or scratched. The same at Quarry Bank Mill , near Manchester Airport. Greys absolutely everywhere, and people throwing and offering food to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 5 hours ago, Sciurus said: On a different note, In August, I was walking round the park in Chester. There were greys everywhere, then, I saw the Do not feed the squirrels signs, which warned that greys were so used to being hand fed that they were now jumping onto pushchairs and proms looking for food and that there were concerns that a child would be bitten or scratched. 2 hours ago, Longbower said: The same at Quarry Bank Mill , near Manchester Airport. Greys absolutely everywhere, and people throwing and offering food to them. I understand that for some people it's the only wild mammal their going to see, plus there cute and climb, but folk wouldn't want rats coming up to them in the park. Well I've had nothing for a long while and then ended up with two in the garden today, as i was getting ready for work another squirrel came marching up the garden, sniffed where the other died and kept coming, right up onto the bird table, mistake. Another female similar size 1501 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 That picture put on here a while ago of one eating a blue tit should be put on the signs saying don't feed the squirrels, they are happy to feed themselves on these young fledglings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalahari Posted October 8, 2019 Report Share Posted October 8, 2019 Two more in my traps. 1503. David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 One this morning foraging under the Oak tree 1504 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 (edited) Sob Sob !!! Haven't shot one for over a week now. Maybe in the morning. Just checked and it is over two weeks !! Edited October 13, 2019 by Walker570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moondoggy Posted October 13, 2019 Report Share Posted October 13, 2019 One last Wednesday that I forgot to mention 1505 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted October 15, 2019 Report Share Posted October 15, 2019 Another one this morning under another oak 1506 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted October 19, 2019 Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 Well they have turned up in our woods again , dropping sweet chestnuts , and then running down the trees to forage them . There is too much leaf cover to get them in the trees with an air rifle , but on the ground I bagged 3 yesterday. 1509 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 19, 2019 Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 AT LAST got into them...9 today. They are still foraging and difficult to shoot as they rarely stand still. 1518 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted October 19, 2019 Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 3 today. 1521 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted October 22, 2019 Report Share Posted October 22, 2019 Last Friday, I visited my favourite permission an oak/Beech wood with long frontage to the Lake. It was a lovely morning and as I was crossing the pasture to the wood, a grey appeared round a trunk and patently waited as I unslipped the gun and loaded up... I picked him up and as I scanned the oak again another appeared and was quickly put in the bag. The wood was a little disappointing, I saw two but they were well out of range. Just before I left the wood, I took this photo, thinking that was it for the day. However, Returning along the footpath, I spotted another grey, who also waited patently as I unslipped the gun and popped him off. A minute later I was in the car park and a fourth ran up a Beech into a drey. No public had arrived yet, so once again I unslipped the gun and reloaded, the thermal indicated where he was hiding and so he was knocked off! Needless to say they were all adolescents but they all count! Total 1525 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 22, 2019 Report Share Posted October 22, 2019 (edited) Nice one. Checked out a new site this morning. I was a little late arriving...9am and at 9.15am I had 4 laying peacefully on the forest floor. I have only just set this site and the hide and only when looking at the photos do I realise how back lit it is even though covered with camo netting. A sheet of hessian will solve that. I did see two of them sit bolt upright and freeze and they had obviously...too late...realised something was amiss. 1529 Edited October 22, 2019 by Walker570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 23, 2019 Report Share Posted October 23, 2019 ....and another this morning. It was very unlucky. I just saw a flick of movement off to the right of my blind and it was rummaging in some twigs. Then saw another approaching but it was on a mission and did not stop, then I had two above me chattering away together. They still seem to be scavenging around for acorns etc., as they show no interest in the pheasant feeders and rarely sit still. Need a spell of sharp frosts I think. 1530 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted October 23, 2019 Report Share Posted October 23, 2019 Had a walk round two local woods, quite a few youngsters running about the branches, two stopped long enough to be knocked down with the Daystate, I could have had more if I had the .410 with me but the woods are open to the public and it was half term... Total 1532 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 (edited) Two youngsters for me as well 1534 make it 1535, got another in the garden. Edited October 24, 2019 by Mice! got another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 Two more this morning eventually coming to a pheasant feeder. Back up to 5.75 weekly average for the year and some sites which normally produce double figures still to visit. 1537 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted October 24, 2019 Report Share Posted October 24, 2019 Another 3 today , while roost shooting pigeons ,with the HW110. 1540 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchers Posted October 26, 2019 Report Share Posted October 26, 2019 At last, I have finally got one on my new permission but not off a feeder but in a tree, an adult female. 1541 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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