A Bit Of Woodland Pest Control

[Dazzam 239]

Ok, so on Monday afternoon I went up to one of my permissions to check the squirrel hoppers with the intention of taking them down. I had shot a few squirrels over them the past week and didn’t want to overdo it. After filling them up on Friday afternoon, I was surprised to find them completely empty with lots of damage done to the feeder by the squirrels looking for more peanuts. Being off work I decided to go up on Monday evening at dusk for a final shoot over them. I met the farmer who was doing some reconstruction work on his lane who asked me to start controlling the rabbits again soon as he was seeing lots of them around the place. I settled down at one of the hoppers and waited for about 15 minutes before the first squirrel of the evening showed up. He was aware of me as I wasn’t using a hide but lying on the grass about 30-35 yards away but patience paid off and his desire for the peanuts overtook his wariness for me and he was taken with a clean shot to the head. I waited for another 15 minutes or so and then checked the other hopper. As I approached the hopper I could see one feeding away at the peanuts so I got down low to the ground and slowly belly crawled in until I was about 35-40 yards away. After settling down for a few minutes i squeezed the trigger and took a nice head shot. The nerves of the squirrel carried him behind a tree as can be seen in the video. I took a walk around a few of the fields just to see what was about and couldn’t resist the chance of a couple of rabbits. Only one was recorded but it was a bit too small to include in the final picture. Heading back to the car for a final check of one of the hoppers another squirrel was taken with a nice clean head shot.

 

I could think of worst ways of spending Easter Monday evening.

Daz

 

Here's a link to the video of some of the action

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZaDW9enzE

[villaman 9,983]

Nice vid and shooting , well done

[big napper 3,616]

Nice one daz

[The one 8,497]

Nice bit of film , do you use the squirrels for anything ?.

[mattwhite 1,993]

Nicely done pal.

That first squizzer had a proper peanut bath!! And the white stripe down that rabbits face is a new one on me???

[mark williams 7,560]

Nice shooting Dazzam

[Rez 4,961]

Lovely. Sweet old footage that.

[Dazzam 239]

Nice bit of film , do you use the squirrels for anything ?.

ThanksThe one. I've been giving most of them to the ferrets but have oven cooked a couple of them just to try them out.

[Dazzam 239]

Nicely done pal.

That first squizzer had a proper peanut bath!! And the white stripe down that rabbits face is a new one on me

Thanks Matt. There's quite a few on this permission with similar marks to that one.

 

atb

Daz

[mark williams 7,560]

Just drop one in a deep fat fryer, American style, they get scoffed "quick sticks" Daz.

 

Here`s one of my sons and his girlfriend scoffing one, lovely free food.

[Dazzam 239]

Just drop one in a deep fat fryer, American style, they get scoffed "quick sticks" Daz.

 

Here`s one of my sons and his girlfriend scoffing one, lovely free food.IMG_0432.JPGIMG_0434.JPG

 

Going to give that a go Mark. Thanks for sharing

[villaman 9,983]

Just drop one in a deep fat fryer, American style, they get scoffed "quick sticks" Daz.

 

Here`s one of my sons and his girlfriend scoffing one, lovely free food.IMG_0432.JPGIMG_0434.JPG

Tell her you buy some new jeans !!

[j j m 6,555]

well done mate

[The one 8,497]

 

Nice bit of film , do you use the squirrels for anything ?.

ThanksThe one. I've been giving most of them to the ferrets but have oven cooked a couple of them just to try them out.

 

The ferrets love them and they make great burgers , the tails are worth 50p a time to fly tying fishermen worth it if you get a few