It's happened to my twice now. the snow pile they are in is 6 feet tall I can't find them till April

be cool if it was miniaturized
you aim the scope on the PC
click the mouse and a little soldier
next to the Bird feeder caps the squirrel

Johnny, get a 4x scope and zero it in on the range/distance your birdfeeders are away. Pellets will drop 3-4" in 100', so if you are shooting at 20' and zero'd at 100' you'll shoot under every time. If you can get proficient enough to pass the Raven test you are there. I aim between the eye and the ear, but a straight on shot up the nose will also do. I don't want to see them suffer, but I don't ever want to see them again. My friendly neighborhood fox does the cleanup work for me.

Snow buntings Bobby - very good! Mark it up. Straight white or mottled?

Buzz 1
Squirrels 0

Does red snow distract other squirrels?

Thanks for the tips Mike. I'm sighted in dead on at 50'. Most shots are a little closer, some a little further away so I adjust accordingly. I'm right there with you, in that I want a quick kill. With the distance I'm at and the pellet gun/pellets I'm using, I'm not too worried about that though. Damn pellets will go in one side and out the other.

Buzz 2
Squirrels 0

A good quality pellet gun does the trick and it puts food on the table at the same time.My old RWS 48 and Beeman R1 have decimated the squirrel population,but alas with the times we live and the neighborhood I recide in its no longer an option...to bad.

They were all mottled.I'll send a couple off to you.

just spotted a small hawk in the tree next to the feeders. I tried to get as good a look as possible but my binoc's are in the truck and my eyesight stinks and getting to be dusk almost.. . Looking in the book could be a Coopers hawk or sharp spinned. Wish I had read book first as the tails are different but I don't remember. Cool bird though.

The Sharpie is the more prevalent of the two locally.The two are very similar and very hard to distinguish from one another.On that assumption I assume the one that visits my yard is a Sharpie.

gun or cutter high inside?

Any of these furry tailed rats that dare stand and laugh at me from 10' away while I'm holding a WSD (weapon of squirrel destruction) deserves a BB right between the eyes!

send out the stretcher!!

You're having too much fun on the deck or is there a sniper position on a bar stool?

P. those are the best on the market. A few find there way around the Duncraft
and if they can't get to the seed the li'l bastards chew the wooden perch
in half. :smash:

I have never seen a squirrel get anything out of the Brome and there's
nothing they can chew or wreck.

My sharpie came and visited for about 2 min yesterday afternoon. Just walked around the highest pile of snow looking for something.....of course all the birds were long gone. Wanted to run and get the camera but I enjoyed just watching too much. I also assumed he'd be gone by time I got back.

If he came back today he could have had squirrel meat!:uhuh: Something did, probably a feral cat.

i am building owl boxes this year

Rav,put some bat boxes up too if you have the place,
as you know they are on the decline because of some kind of diease.

Anybody ever try those exterior ultrsonic sound devices that
are supposed to repel squirrels, cats and even deer within a 30 ft
radious?

Took one out this morning. Fell out of the tree into about 3' of snow. Won't see him until May.

Probably won't see him ever, scavengers will get it first! Way to go, only an infinite number more to send to their graves!

I had issues with squirrels and raccoons right up the street from Slip

After taking out 63 squirrels, and fortunately rabies got the raccoons. I went with the Audobon feeder pole shield.

I've never had problem since as long as I mounted the shield per instructions.

Now if I could keep the bastards out of my birdhouses. I'm putting sheet metal inserts in the entry holes this year.

I'll be curious. He fell in the middle of nowhere so the tracks and digging will be obvious. Should have had at least a couple more but I suck.

Johnny, the tail fur makes nice teasers - go dig it out!

I thought of that a couples hrs later and the body(s) had already been dragged off by a predator, damn!

Don't worry PR, they'll be more - it's like the attack of the zombies.

I get red squirrels too.

I have more deer tails and other teaser making stuff to last me a few years. Thought about collecting the tails and sending them off to Mepps, but I'm just gonna feed the local foxes for now.

I have a couple yuppy neighbors and the houses are pretty close so I'm trying to not draw any extra attention.

Cardinals. Just counted 9 males and 3 females at the same feeder at once. So cool to see so much red in the same place. Most i have ever seen at one time. had 3 on the feeder perch at once and the others were on ground or on branches with in 3 feet.

For a territorial bird their testosterone levels must have been off the charts!

get your birdhouses up shortly. that smell is in the air!!

Sorry to hear that, I could see a call to the ASPCA in your near future. :hihi:

What's the fine for killing a squirrel after the season?

It's the Peta people

PETA people Suck

Toch O he's sympathetic to their cause

I have a good friend who was reported by some yuppie for shooting squirrels
with his 22 in his own neighborhood.
He had to go to county court, pay a $2500 fine and turn in all his guns due to local weapon discharge laws.

The ASPCA heard of it and wanted to prosecute him for cruelty
to animals too but that was dismissed.

ASPCA was successful though in another town for a guy shooting RATS
in his garden!!!! Forget what the fine was,but it was stiff.

I could see it if he were shooting at yuppies. :rotflmao:

Interesting. Ah well. I think a pellet gun will be a bit different than a 22. MA regulates slingshots more than pellet guns.


*edit* The whole rat thing got me wonder... wtf??? So are they going to start prosecuting people for putting out rat poison and mouse traps?

*edit #2* Did some poking around out of curiosity...
http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/Ge...r131/Section37
(my emphasis added)

I had a good sign, in a sense, this morning when checking the recent damage to my bird feeders. The squirrels had once again dropped it off its metal hook (unraveled clothes hanger) and tore it apart.
The good news is that in the process one of the little bastiges must have cut its paw pretty good, because there was a fair amount of blood on the snow and the feeder.

The other good news was I was able to fashion a squirrel baffle out of plexiglas sheeting, cut into a circle roughly 18-20" wide.

I may have reached a turning point in my ongoing battle with these flippin' tree rats.

*edit* The whole rat thing got me wonder... wtf??? So are they going to start prosecuting people for putting out rat poison and mouse traps?

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This goes back 5 years or so ago and I don't remember all the particulars.
But there was a big hullabalou about just that, the rats were destroying
his garden and that was his defense.

So many regulations by the town, state and government agencies.
In high density residential areas I can see the gun regulations for safety,
but no traps is ridiculous.

Has anyone ever heard of Canada robins? Weather guy just said he's getting lots of reports of robins as being a sign of Spring. He said what we are seeing is southern migration of robins from Canada. He commented you can tell the difference in that the Canada robins are fat and when the US robins fly north when Spring does arrive they will be skinny.


I've got a flock about 40 fat robins going around cleaning off holly bushes of the last remaining berries.

another Observation
 

AS a type of Shelter from the Storm..... (blizzards)

i recycled a huge Christmas tree by tying it
to my wooden Bird feeder pole outside the office window.

In the Center of it i tied a suet basket feeder
so that smaller birds would have unrestricted access
from the other "more dominant" suet feeder visitors.

AS it turned out , MALE cardinals preferred this location
because i think they felt more safe and that particular suet
basket was the first one to go "empty".

Try gluing on fender washers just the right size inisde diameter for the birds you want to attract on the ouside hole of your birdhouse.