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Checking Earths

  • 04-12-2010 7:09pm
    #1
    homerhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭


    Went out this evening with a friend checking earths. Just down the road from me there is a small grove of trees and took a look in there and found an active earth

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    We followed the prints in the snow just to see where the red lad was coming in and out of the grove and found a nice little pass under a fence that he is using. I took a quick look over the far side and found a few more set of tracks leading to one spot, went over for a closer inspection and found what looked to be a new earth opened in a hollow. When we got down for closer inspection it seems that good old charlie has his very own larder. Seems that he had stocked up on a few bunnies and burried them a few inches into the bank.

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Comments

  • #2
    kildare.17hmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Clever boy! i have been meanin to have a look around my permissions to get get to know more about charlies movements and make the most of the snow but all the times i was out this week i didnt:o Think ill get up early and go for a ramble around before all the snow is gone.

    Any sign of the red fella after?


  • #3
    blackstairsboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭blackstairsboy


    Must be picking up tips from squirrels:D

    Seriously I never saw that before but you live and learn. Foxes must be starving though because I left a few crows and magpies in a corner of a wood yesterday evening that I had shot. This morning there wasn't a scrap left and I could see three different tracks leading away from it!


  • #4
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    A snare would look lovely dangling over that pass!:D

    You got any mates with terriers?


  • #5
    FISMA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    Burried where: in the snow/cover, correct? Not the Earth.


  • #6
    homerhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭homerhop


    I have seen nature programes where artic foxes did it but never seen it here. Where the fresh clay was found was roughly 100-120 ft away
    At first we thought it may have dug down into a warren but the hole was only 6 inches deep and not into a burrow. A good bit of rabbit fur in the hole. Used to do a good bit of digging and snaring but prefer to lamp now.


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  • #7
    round tower huntsman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭round tower huntsman


    great weather for finding foxes to ground. hoping to check some holes myself this weekend, the russell is nearlt old enough to earn his dinner.

    weather like this a good terrier comes into his own. not many foxes above in this weather,o good foxing terrier will account for plenty of vermin.


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