Out last night.
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BenBhoy
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Foxyboy43
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Here’s how to get round the SWMBO and tidying matter…I think you need to get tidied up , the place is a tip
They are savage especially the juvenile flocks they will pester a ewe away from twins and triplets knowing fine she can't protect them all.
I know of a few locals that have been successful with getting licences.
Smellydog
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Personally, I hate the fecking things!
Shotgun572013
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Ducks and chickens being killed a few nights ago. Also , nearly all taken away the same night but surely a wee bit early for cubs with us ? Anyway, my shooting buddy and I are in situ on opposite sides of the small holding around 20.45 and within 10 minutes it came down the track , spotted his vehicle and set off at a canter . It dropped to his third shot around 160 yards with a 55 gr in the back of it’s neck .A decent sized dog Fox . No substitute for skill says he ! Nothing else doing so we had a cruise around a few likely spots , and sure enough I spotted one ambling along the heavy ploughing as we drove along the main road. 21.40 . We turned the pickup around further down and drove back past it a good distance , turned around again and pulled into one of the entrances to the field, engine off and waited. She didn’t take long to appear, a little squeak and at around 70 yards , the .243 said goodnight . Scruffy Vixen with a bit of mange . (3rd pic).
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My son and I, alongside the keeper we work with, have been shooting about 3 a week all in the same valley. We are definitely getting the impression that they are not locals. This is up on the moors near the welsh borders, and the home-grown ones are always moving fast, don't stop, and leg it on the first sign of an IR torch going on. The foreigners bumble around looking lost, and having an endearing tendency to sit down and look directly at you when you turn the IR on, often at under 200m. Not a mistake that they make more than once, but more still keep appearing. None of the vixens are in cub, and quite a few of them have mange.
Plummer
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Ouch, we have tried for years with video and photographic evidence, including vets agreeing to the injuries caused by Ravens.. can I asked what part of the country you from?
Did you put a concrete plinth underneath on purpose?
I have just found a length of 6" drainage pipe, so I will fettle one soon and post pictures, hopefully with my quarry by it!
Southern Scotland is the area but Nature Scott previously SNH is who you apply to (I have never been the applicant) and if I am correct they will send someone out to monitor it and decide on what action.
Plummer
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Thank You..
Had 4, and a bonus rat.
Yes, I did. It’s been a hell of a wet winter and otherwise Charlie will dig it out underneath. This slows the process up for him.
Had one early again, permit to go next door, bit of a jungle shot in the woods.
Retreated when big gritters sighted .
Retreated when big gritters sighted .
Only saw one fox last night, but up on the hill (common land) so outside of our permission. On the upside, saw two otters coming out of an area of woody scrub at about 19:45, and playing chase across a grass field as they went down towards the small river about half a mile away! Lovely to see, and up the hill, it wasn't the sort of place you would expect otters to be. This is the second time we have seen them, and there is no mistaking what they are in the thermal. I only wish I had worked out how to use the recording function in time!
Nickb
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Otters can stray quite some distance at times. I once invited a mate up stalking near Lockerbie, I placed him in a wood waiting for fallow.
When I met up with him later I asked how he got on and he said an otter had came right up to him in the wood .
Smellydog
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Had the same experience also.
Smellydog
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I have no idea what that means
Early bath, shot one before 8pm,I have no idea what that means
Permission to go over boundary for it, jungle shot, partially obscured by timber. sighted the eight wheeler gritters ......................... F*#+ off home
Just had message, First arrivals in Lambing shed. Lock & Load!!
Smellydog
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Slightly clearerEarly bath, shot one before 8pm,
Permission to go over boundary for it, jungle shot, partially obscured by timber. sighted the eight wheeler gritters ......................... F*#+ off home
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