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3 hours ago, Sciurus said:

Just one trapped grey and another hedge pig..

Spotted some greys stripping a tall cherry tree- the cherries were green and size of a peanut

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Pigeons are stripping the cherries in my garden

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I opened my eyes at 6am this morning and through the bleary glaze could just make out the movement of a grey skipping over our stile and into the garden from the peas. S410 out and I had it in the cross hairs, but with an audience of three young boys no clean shot was on.... we waited silently for a few minutes with my sons watching intently at my side. Eventually it sat up on a  branch in the oak and stopped for long enough that I was able to slip the shot away. My oldest son (5) cheered me with a “good shot daddy”, then explained to the middle brother (3) that the squirrel was dead but had the “wriglets” (death spasms). He also told his baby brother (1), who had been chatting away nonsensically during the wait, that he needs to learn to “be patient like daddy” 🥰

Feel like they are learning the ways. 

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2 hours ago, WalkedUp said:

I opened my eyes at 6am this morning and through the bleary glaze could just make out the movement of a grey skipping over our style and into the garden from the peas. S410 out and I had it in the cross hairs, but with an audience of three young boys no clean shot was on.... we waited silently for a few minutes with my sons watching intently at my side. Eventually it sat up on a  branch in the oak and stopped for long enough that I was able to slip the shot away. My oldest son (5) cheered me with a “good shot daddy”, then explained to the middle brother (3) that the squirrel was dead but had the “wriglets” (death spasms). He also told his baby brother (1), who had been chatting away nonsensically during the wait, that he needs to learn to “be patient like daddy” 🥰

Feel like they are learning the ways. 

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Love it.

 

11 minutes ago, Fisheruk said:

And they are crapping the cherry stones over our garden 

😅😅😅 better than what the gulls do to my car.

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One trapped grey and two hedgepigs-grrr!

Traps now on blocks hopefully no more wasted call outs to loan traps.

Had a walk this afternoon and was surprised how many cherry trees there were, that I had never noticed before.

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Just one more this morning in a live cage trap in our own wood.  I did get a shot at another first thing on a flip top feeder elsewhere but the gusty wind took the pellet and I think the tree rat may have a sore nose because it jerked its head back and hit the lid on the feeder throwing it up in the the air before bolting up the tree and there was a groove in the front of the feeder where the pellet had skimmed across.

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I’ve not been very active on the forum since I joined it, but now I have a good squirrel permission I have decided to share my results here. 

Attached are some pictures taken on my weekly visits to the feeder. The rifle is an Air Arms S410 in 177 with Mamba lite scope. My pellet of choice is the Air Arms Diablo Field. 

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Couple more pictures. 

Total since the lock down was lifted is 15. 

Total 1173. 

Regards

Russel. 

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On 01/07/2020 at 09:49, hatter said:

I’ve not been very active on the forum since I joined it, but now I have a good squirrel permission I have decided to share my results here. 

Attached are some pictures taken on my weekly visits to the feeder. The rifle is an Air Arms S410 in 177 with Mamba lite scope. My pellet of choice is the Air Arms Diablo Field. 

7B190BC6-BE2B-471B-8948-473C766CC264.jpeg

CE51BCD9-5666-4563-BB66-27DB40801C48.jpeg

4A5B0571-00DD-424C-9866-B17E9A7E3B8B.jpeg

Couple more pictures. 

Total since the lock down was lifted is 15. 

Total 1173. 

Regards

Russel. 

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Nice 

Working from home as it’s my wife's birthday. 1179

Redacted the photograph to remove gore, very clean kill. 

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6 hours ago, WalkedUp said:

Nice 

Working from home as it’s my wife's birthday. 1179

Redacted the photograph to remove gore, very clean kill. 

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Thanks mate. I hope your wife had a good birthday. Did you buy her something nice? 

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