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Hungrier they're gettin!!

  • 24-12-2010 12:01pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭


    Went out a while ago to top up hoppers and check my larsen cage!
    On aproaching the cage i noticed a gray crow outside it picking at what i assumed was food i dropped whilst feeding the call bird, and was supprised that i mannaged to get so close to him!

    Unfortunately for this lad i brought along the shotgun and gunbelt!

    fox2005.jpg

    But on closer examination of the cage i noticed that the gray was actually eating a song bird (blackbird i think) that unfortunatly got caught in the cage!:(
    There wasn't much left of him bar his back legs and rear end!

    fox2004.jpg

    He wasn't long in the cage for he wasn't frozen, pitty i wasn't there an hour earlier!:mad:

    The main reason i brought the gun was that a friend told me he saw a fox trying to get at my magpie call bird several mornings the last couple a weeks, his house is only about 4 hundred yards from wher my cage is, and yesterday morning a fox came into his back yard and made off with a lovely bone belonging to the familly dog , who was bouncing off the patio door from the inside going mad barking, and the fox didn't even blink an eye!:D
    I've also noticed a couple of bunches of pheasant feathers aruond the hoppers but im not sure if their casualty's or not!:confused:

    So after my sucess with the gray crow i walked down a field or so and sat into a nice bit of cover with good open ground in front of me and started calling with a hand call!
    15 minutes past with nothing showing so i turned on the magpie call on the U caller to try and tempt some very wary mags and after about 2 or 3 minutes what apears right in front of me only a red lad, no more than 5 yards out!:eek: Well i nearly **** myself!!
    Jumpt up and totally missed with my first shot, about 20 yards:o but got it right with the second!!

    fox2006.jpg

    Nice healthy fox with a slight touch of mange on the tail, probably from being under ground due to the weather!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭landkeeper


    no foxes to ground round here they are all too busy trying to find lunch during the dayi squeeked one up to the car to show my 8 yr old on the way home from town yesterday , a mate of mine did about 30 burrows the other day not a fox in any of them but he saw about 5 walking about , i shot one the other afternoon and it was a lot lighter than i was expecting it to be, very thin


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


    landkeeper wrote: »
    no foxes to ground round here they are all too busy trying to find lunch during the dayi squeeked one up to the car to show my 8 yr old on the way home from town yesterday , a mate of mine did about 30 burrows the other day not a fox in any of them but he saw about 5 walking about , i shot one the other afternoon and it was a lot lighter than i was expecting it to be, very thin

    I was thinkin more on the line of foxes going to ground during the night and spending the day out hunting when there's more of a chance of a meal!
    Could be wrong though!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭4gun


    seen two foxws out this afternoon while taking the dog for a walk, I had my 22wmr with me but the foxed had got the drop on me and legged it before I could even get the scope to my eye....for another day;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭meathshooter1


    got a nice dog fox about 9am this morning he was in very good condition


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 395 ✭✭welsummer


    i see you have plenty of rabbits around


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭EastTyrone


    when i feed my pup every morning in the trees above his pen theres about 5 magpies keep trying to get in to eat his food, if only i had a rimmy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭coolhandspan


    7 1/2 S for them magpies, let them know its no place for them.:)

    well done on fox guy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭blackstairsboy


    Well done on the fox. I didn't bother getting my larsen out because I presumed the cold would kill the decoy bird. Have you had any trouble keeping him fit and well? Lots of people are telling me that its a good time to trap magpies in the hard weather.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Well done on the fox. I didn't bother getting my larsen out because I presumed the cold would kill the decoy bird. Have you had any trouble keeping him fit and well? Lots of people are telling me that its a good time to trap magpies in the hard weather.

    Havin good results with the Larsen at the father-in laws place in coastal North Mayo ATM - got 8 hoodies and one mag since Dec 17th. Though obviously its a bit milder by the sea then it would be inland in the SE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Good going Eddie, I just love seeing greycrows like that!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 118 ✭✭lamper35


    well done eddie was just goin too say the same about the greys


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


    Well done on the fox. I didn't bother getting my larsen out because I presumed the cold would kill the decoy bird. Have you had any trouble keeping him fit and well? Lots of people are telling me that its a good time to trap magpies in the hard weather.

    No trouble at all keeping him alive once it doesn't rain!
    If the bird gets wet in this cold weather, he's history!!


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


    Lads went down this mornin to check on my cage!
    All doors closed and a bit of a hole dug at the side of the cage where something was trying to get in at the call bird!
    Looked down the field and low and behold, here was mister fox sitting out about 4 hundred yards looking straight at me!
    Looks like the lad i got yesterday wasn't the one thats been hanging around the area the last few weeks!

    I also noticed that there was no pheasants at the feeder this morning which is only about a hundred yards from my cage, so i recon the fox was trying his luck with them as well!

    Think i'll get up early in the morning to try and get this lad!
    This is bugging me now, and i'll probably suffer from lack of sleep till i get him!!!:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 820 ✭✭✭jetski


    Op... what animal is in cage?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭charlie10


    magpie i suspect


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭coolhandspan


    Always bring shotgun and two 4s when checking cage guy, best of luck taking him out... pheasants are probably takin a hammerin from that guy.......... let us know how ya go


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


    Always bring shotgun and two 4s when checking cage guy, best of luck taking him out... pheasants are probably takin a hammerin from that guy.......... let us know how ya go

    Well i tried to tempt the fox into the call the other day whilst there was still snow on the ground!
    Couldn't have got off to a better start, only calling about 2 minutes when he appeared! Said to myself, "boyo your history" he came in nice and steady to about 80 or 90 yards when he stoped, started sniffing around the ground for a couple of minutes and then sat there!
    He sat there, looking around, had a yawn for himself, not paying any attention to the call at all, and there wasn't a thing i could do!:(
    Eventually he just fect off!

    To make things worse, the other day i found some evidance of some damage done due to the weather, or more likely due to the fox!!


    birddead001.jpg

    More than likely i'll come across more evidance of damage over the next couple of day's!:mad:

    Think i'll have to invest in a rifle!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 977 ✭✭✭mallards


    Nice going Eddie, you will get him yet. I got one with the hornet day before yesterday. I know this lad was at my pheasants.

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    Mallards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭fallowbuck


    landkeeper wrote: »
    no foxes to ground round here they are all too busy trying to find lunch during the dayi squeeked one up to the car to show my 8 yr old on the way home from town yesterday , a mate of mine did about 30 burrows the other day not a fox in any of them but he saw about 5 walking about , i shot one the other afternoon and it was a lot lighter than i was expecting it to be, very thin

    my patterdale bitch killed a vixen and had the dog in a corner not to far from death either last monday bought 12ish i find been a terrier man hard weather is the best time for digging , matter of opinion suppose it what keeps it interesting:rolleyes:


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