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| Posted: Sun May 19th, 2019 06:33 |
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Robert
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Graham Whistler wrote:Starlings have been busy as our garden is full of young fighting to get to food on our feeders. We have also had rats in serious amounts picking up food falling from the feeders. Council rat man has put down traps with poison and I have shot 9 to date with my air rifle. Now the foxes are there with a keen interest in eating rats so we have been rat free for several days! Sounds like a battleground Graham, would a tray, suspended below the feeder prevent the feed falling to the ground? No Fox pix?
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| Posted: Sun May 19th, 2019 06:44 |
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Graham Whistler
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Have done that but big birds tip tray, have also greased the pole to stop rats climbing up! Do not want to stop feeding as birds have young to feed so are extra hard at work at the moment. At least it looks as if this batch of rats is finished.
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| Posted: Sun May 19th, 2019 10:13 |
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Graham Whistler
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On the left shot with D850 and 500mm lens and on the right same rat a few moments later shot with a .177 air rifle! Attachment: Rat.jpg (Downloaded 236 times)
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| Posted: Sun May 19th, 2019 13:25 |
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1164th Post |
jk
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Good shooting Graham. I suspect that you are refreshing your skills from the years in Africa.
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| Posted: Sun May 19th, 2019 17:06 |
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1165th Post |
blackfox
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a couple from today no dead rats though , the oystercatcher is on the estuary about 200 yds from home   
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| Posted: Mon May 20th, 2019 15:16 |
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blackfox
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quick trip to the estuary this evening to try for the house martins in evening light it paid dividends as the flock let me approach to with a few feet on foot , I moved very very slowly and gained there confidence and it paid dividends as seen below ,waled away feeling very smug   
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| Posted: Mon May 20th, 2019 15:56 |
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1167th Post |
Robert
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Well done Jeff, get much closer and you will need the 60! LOL
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| Posted: Fri May 24th, 2019 05:23 |
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1168th Post |
blackfox
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a few from yesterday ,one of those days when it all falls into place    
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| Posted: Fri May 24th, 2019 08:31 |
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jk
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Superb images Jeff. No less that I expect from you.  The spoonbill? is fantastic.
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| Posted: Fri May 24th, 2019 17:13 |
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Robert
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Saw an unusual bird s afternoon in a very large rural garden near Lancaster. It appeared over some large bushes, swooped across the lawn and disappeared into or over some more bushes about 80 yards later. At first I thought it was a hawk, it was flying quite fast with a powerful wingbeat, the wings seemed smallish and were dark on the upper side, when raised the wings formed a steep V not unlike the character V. Then as it crossed the lawn I thought of Jeff's Owl, the body didn't look like an Owl but it could have had a flat face like the pictures Jeff has posted, even if I had had my camera with me there would have been absolutely no chance of photographing it, the whole thing was over in a couple of seconds. I will be spending some time in this garden so I will try to have camera ready, but if it repeats the same manoeuvre I will have zero chance of getting a pic.
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