The out yesterday or today thread and...

[Smellydog]

Hadn't had a squirrel with my old new to me Original 50 air rifle so scratched that itch this afternoon.
6 sqizzers and a pigeon. The air rifle has really improved with a good barrel clean and crown polish.

Found this moth. My granddaughter assures me it's a White Satin moth. .

 

[Mike1979]

Out yesterday on the corvids after the farmer had phoned to say they were on the maize clamp. Got up at 4.20 and set up and ready to go at 6.00. Windy old day and a lot were coming in from behind me which made it challenging at times (doesnt help the hedge is about 9 ft tall ) Shot until about 12.30 and called it a day with a mixed bag of 85.

 

[wytonpjs]

Immediately by my house in the middle of a housing development by a busy bus lane - no opportunity for a shot When moved on was in poor condition with worst tail I’ve seen. Bastard took a moorhen chick barely 50m away on way out from the pond, despite being chased FFS

 

[Smellydog]

Out yesterday on the corvids after the farmer had phoned to say they were on the maize clamp. Got up at 4.20 and set up and ready to go at 6.00. Windy old day and a lot were coming in from behind me which made it challenging at times (doesnt help the hedge is about 9 ft tall ) Shot until about 12.30 and called it a day with a mixed bag of 85.

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Thought you said you struggle with a shotgun?!
Well done

 

[Mike1979]

Thought you said you struggle with a shotgun?!
Well done

I like to get the excuses in place nice and early . Im not the best shot ...average at best but love it. On a bad day I'm maybe 2:1 ...best day I think I shot 105 corvids for about 115 shots...but that was a one off

 

[John Gryphon]

Immediately by my house in the middle of a housing development by a busy bus lane - no opportunity for a shot When moved on was in poor condition with worst tail I’ve seen. Bastard took a moorhen chick barely 50m away on way out from the pond, despite being chased FFS

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Looks to be in very poor condition that fox.

 

[wytonpjs]

Looks to be in very poor condition that fox.

Thin, coat matted, base 3" of its brush non-existent and appearing very haunted. If it had been elsewhere, I would have shot it there and then but I simply cannot do that here where we live.

As I stood watching it with Gary of @BE Precision, my neighbour went down and moved it one, only to see it grab 2 moorhen chicks from the reeds. With his intervention it dropped one which swam off, but the other was snacked on the move as it exited across a bus lane. It lives across the road on part of a large University campus that has about 200 hundred acres of mature scrub. I regularly fly a drone over there to look at the deer but there's no way any shootings is going to take place there. Indeed, pre-COVID I ran an activity for some second-year biology students to propose a management strategy for the deer that they had fenced in. No action taken on any of the proposals

 

[John Gryphon]

Thin, coat matted, base 3" of its brush non-existent and appearing very haunted. If it had been elsewhere, I would have shot it there and then but I simply cannot do that here where we live.

As I stood watching it with Gary of @BE Precision, my neighbour went down and moved it one, only to see it grab 2 moorhen chicks from the reeds. With his intervention it dropped one which swam off, but the other was snacked on the move as it exited across a bus lane. It lives across the road on part of a large University campus that has about 200 hundred acres of mature scrub. I regularly fly a drone over there to look at the deer but there's no way any shootings is going to take place there. Indeed, pre-COVID I ran an activity for some second-year biology students to propose a management strategy for the deer that they had fenced in. No action taken on any of the proposals

Big chance its been hit by a car and cant hunt enough to keep up a normal physical fox appearance. Or perhaps a major tapeworm/parasite infection.