J Darcy
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A bit of duck flighting with the airgun. Shot a nice cock teal and a hen mallard.
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Probably one of my favourite piccys. This was was taken about 17 years ago as I tried to whack a few maggies in the local roost. I got a few with the Fn12, but they could see me due to the snow on the floor.......great memories from that roost. We first found that maggie roost about 1989 when we stumbled upon it by accident. We shot 11 that night. Today the silver birch have grown higher and the roost isn't like it once was but there's still the odd one about.
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A woodcock with the Fn12...how I spotted it in the leaves I will never know. Very, very lucky. I'd never shoot one these days, but this photo was taken 18 years ago.....where do the years go?
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Hw95.....This rifle was brand fire new, one of the first in the Uk and I had high aspirations for it. However the springs supplied were bad and were brittle. Didn't do the internals much good. Still managed a bag full of tackle in the short time I had it.....
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A trip to Scotland with my first Hw77; a nice days bag: I bloody loved that gun, wish I'd never have traded it in! The scopes were beauties.....
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This was my first taste of a PCP. I bought the AA S300 and had a good day with it..... This bag was from that first day out....
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Excuse the quality.An old piccy taken many, many years ago of the hw80, a proper beast of a gun and my first .177. This image was taken in Scotland, in the late 80's, long before I'd heard of PCP's...... The stoats were taken in a rockpile, it is the only stoat I've ever shot.
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They put massive prices in, and worry about doing the job right if and when they get the contract....
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Looks a belter......Good luck with him
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Fucithalmic is what I use....best gear there is IMO.
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I had planned to do an area that was shallow/boggy where fish couldnt get and I was guna do reeds lillies etc on marginal shelves in about 2ft of water then deeper section about 4-6ft to restrict the spread of the reeds/lillies. Im into mi fishing and always had lifelong ambition of having mi own little pond to fish when Im an old boy so there will be some coarse fish going in. But in my opinion these are as much a part if a wildlife pond as the plants, bugs, amphibians, birds etc. I wont be stuffing it with fish the same I wont be stuffin it with plants, just want a nice balance which wil
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What needs to be remembered about amphibians is that they hibernate on land. So an untidy pile of bricks/debris in a cover acts as a great place for them to go sleepy-byes.... In my own pond I have designed it so that the newts actually hibernate under the brickwork of the pond itself. A hibernaculum is very important as the less distance the newt travels the better as there are less predators to face...JMHO....
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She's looking like her mum.....
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A shallow pond will hold alot more life than a deep pond. And I'd maybe have a serious think about the rushes. Once they take off they are a swine to stop taking over the pond. I'd have Marsh Marigold, and water forget-me-nots in there first for a year before I thought about lilys and rushes. You would be surprised what comes in of its own accord. Also, don't introduce duckweed or it will rapidly take over. Canadian pond weed is a great oxygenator.... Oh, and fish and newts aren't a good combo...not from the newts point of view anyway. Even sticklebacks hammer the newt larvae severely....
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Lots of goldies, bullys and, of course, chaffys. But the greenie is conspicuous by its absence. Nice birds they are, they were one of the first birds I ever bred in captivity...
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Spot on that statement! Around here they don't behave like that. Obviously different terrain means different behaviour. I've learnt a hell of a lot about them from the trail cams. I've seen an otter negotiate a little stream that runs through miles of built up industrial area, complete with old shopping trolleys and burnt out cars, travelling for three miles , at least, to get to a fishery. And no one ever seems to see them. They're an amazing, elusive mammal. I've taken a few photos of them, but they're very hard to get near enough for a decent photo...I would love to see any photos that
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Come on JD and let me know is that an Irish hare ?? Do you need me to tell you that tut tut...... yes matey, it is. I've got quite a lump of photos of them, and coursing shots of them too.....
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I would disagree regarding otters and flooding ....our rivers flood more and more these days due to drainage on the grouse moores when I was young the river would rise in a few days then peak and drop back in a few days now it's up and down in 24 hours we will have about 2-3 big waters every year now and we find signs of them away from the river when this happens .....last week we had the huge floods and I picked up a dog otter of the road at 2 am in the middle of a village about 2 miles from the river ...I would imagine he would of been holed up and was washed out and become disorientated ...
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European Lynx To Be Released In Uk?
J Darcy replied to forest of dean redneck's topic in General Talk
This is a mental scheme. They should concentrate on the animals we have left in the UK that are quickly trickling down the plughole! -
I would disagree regarding otters and flooding ....our rivers flood more and more these days due to drainage on the grouse moores when I was young the river would rise in a few days then peak and drop back in a few days now it's up and down in 24 hours we will have about 2-3 big waters every year now and we find signs of them away from the river when this happens .....last week we had the huge floods and I picked up a dog otter of the road at 2 am in the middle of a village about 2 miles from the river ...I would imagine he would of been holed up and was washed out and become disorientated ...
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I don't think there'd be many foxes that would tackle an adult otter matey. And I'd hazard a guess that the bitch would be one hell of a whirlwind at protecting her cubs...
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jd get some more pics up of hares boxing from your collection please mate I don't like posting anything good matey, I need them for other things. And, besides, they just end up on googleimages....I'm thinking about maybe getting some images put on aluminium and flogging a few at country fairs....maybe.. i've many thousands of pics of hares here, I might as well do something with them...
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I would say that the floods won't really effect otters, in general, that much. They often come off the main rivers in winter anyway and certainly do so when the water is coloured. But this is all normal for them anyway as they are incredible travellers. The males especially so. Typically an otter will work on a 12-21 day cycle, returning to the food source and to mark their territory. There's loads of otters about, and today the motor car is their only 'predator'.
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I managed to get about 60 snaps of this boxing/mating sequence.
