Day Old Chick Bait

[Ken's Deputy 4,463]

Hang on. Everyone's missing the point here I Know it's corvid's. No need for sand. I'd just like to See the buggers at it. Hence the idea of a web cam.

I have one, actually. Motion activated too. Only, I can't get it onto this vile fukking system.

Too busy, today, to be staring out the window. Got Plan B up my sleeve though. Crafty fukker like that. Just need to think it through a bit more yet.

Where's Gman? You know your trail cam's. Mine's a Bushnell Trophy. I'm wondering if it could be set so, say, a magpie triggers it. But, not a scattering of chaffinches?

Sort of answering my own question really, but; Point it at a bait away from where the fukking chaffinches go! Fukking idiot!

Christ, I'm fukking slow myself, some times!

[Greyman 33,552]

They can be quite clever and interesting to watch sometimes, used to have a crow that would watch my misses get the chickens eggs from the garden and put them on the bench while she picked up the dog shit on the lawn, he would swoop down and take an egg without her ever catching him, only when he dropped one as he made off did she suss out what was happening

[Squirrel_Basher 17,103]

7 hours ago, shaaark said:

I've said I believe it's easily possible for big cats to easily survive in this country,  without being seen by practically anyone. 

Half the people on this site have seen little more than rabbits, hares, fox and/or some species of deer, and those animals are everywhere. Yet those same people are out in the counryside all the time. 

That’s a very broad assumption there mate .Stands to reason that people who are out most will see more and if something looked out of place like  a large cat I’m sure they would notice and log it in the brain .

From what I’ve read on here ,there appears to be a very wide section that can ID wildlife as well as the self proclaimed experts .

What your suggesting is lads walk around with eyes half closed

 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,103]

3 hours ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Hang on. Everyone's missing the point here I Know it's corvid's. No need for sand. I'd just like to See the buggers at it. Hence the idea of a web cam.

I have one, actually. Motion activated too. Only, I can't get it onto this vile fukking system.

Too busy, today, to be staring out the window. Got Plan B up my sleeve though. Crafty fukker like that. Just need to think it through a bit more yet.

Where's Gman? You know your trail cam's. Mine's a Bushnell Trophy. I'm wondering if it could be set so, say, a magpie triggers it. But, not a scattering of chaffinches?

Sort of answering my own question really, but; Point it at a bait away from where the fukking chaffinches go! Fukking idiot!

Christ, I'm fukking slow myself, some times!

Our security cam at the yard is on a loop .It records activity to a hard drive but loops round again if nothing happens .Don’t ask me how it detects movement ,IR I guess ,but I do know it saves trolling through hours of nothing should something happen .

[Ken's Deputy 4,463]

Yeah. What I'd like is one of those jobs where you have a little box, up in the corner of your screen? Know what I mean? So, I can be sitting here, reading and writing bollocks. But, all the time keeping half an eye on what's going on out there.

As it is? I have to physically stop. Stand up. Turn a quarter and look out the window. Now, I know that doesn't sound like much. But, to do it every five f***ing minutes, and still likely to miss the moment? PITA!

Anyway, I'm in it for the long haul. Scheming like fukk here. There's far more to it all than I'm letting on. But, that's how I roll

[shaaark 11,694]

51 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

What your suggesting is lads walk around with eyes half closed

Exactly that mate. 

I agree with you about some of the guys on here, re ID ing wildlfe, brilliant, but I wouldn't call it a very wide section. I'd say it's a miniscule amount of the population that are really into their wildlife.

Be great if one of them could capture something clearly definitive. A lot of those pics they put on here are professional standard.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,103]

Few are pros mate
Even if lads do miss the smaller creatures like voles ,mice and weasels I’d say if something was out of place ,they’d  notice .

Agreed about the capture on film of one of these elusive cats though .Until that day it’s very hard for me to take in but I’ll be the first to say so if any proof emerges you can be sure of that .

 

[South hams hunter 8,997]

26 minutes ago, Ken's Deputy said:

Yeah. What I'd like is one of those jobs where you have a little box, up in the corner of your screen? Know what I mean? So, I can be sitting here, reading and writing bollocks. But, all the time keeping half an eye on what's going on out there.

As it is? I have to physically stop. Stand up. Turn a quarter and look out the window. Now, I know that doesn't sound like much. But, to do it every five f***ing minutes, and still likely to miss the moment? PITA!

Anyway, I'm in it for the long haul. Scheming like fukk here. There's far more to it all than I'm letting on. But, that's how I roll

Why not out something over it so they have to pull at it

[Ken's Deputy 4,463]

Hams, my man; This is exactly what I'm ruminating on as we speak.

Basically, I have two ideas, right now. Neither very satisfactory. Thus I'm chewing it over.

Obviously, I could wire a slab of meat. But, they'd see the wire straight away.

Option two would be a Concrete Screw. Literally screw the fukking thing to the ground. But, how long might that hold out? I once pinned out a sheeps head. I think it was the Second night that a fox played tug of war with it, and won! Got that on film too.

  I need to habituate crows to flocking to a precise spot. But, I need to be tidy as well as focussed. Ideally putting the attractant out, daily. Not leaving any trace of it over night. It's not like I can just drag a dead sheep out there and let it be.

[South hams hunter 8,997]

We have crows eating the bread crusts from the babies toast in the morning, we find that the habit of the same time has them waiting for us each morning.

 

Why not between a few items so that it can't fit through ?  Excuse the poor drawing but something like this

[shaaark 11,694]

16 minutes ago, South hams hunter said:

We have crows eating the bread crusts from the babies toast in the morning, we find that the habit of the same time has them waiting for us each morning.

 

Why not between a few items so that it can't fit through ?  Excuse the poor drawing but something like this

That's better than king's drawing of a lurcher. I could tell that is corn on the cob straight away

[Greyman 33,552]

I thought he wanted them to do naughts and crosses for chicks

[shaaark 11,694]

21 minutes ago, Greyman said:

I thought he wanted them to do naughts and crosses for chicks

Aaah that supposed to be a chick? Yeah, can see it now

[Squirrel_Basher 17,103]

22 hours ago, South hams hunter said:

We have crows eating the bread crusts from the babies toast in the morning, we find that the habit of the same time has them waiting for us each morning.

 

Why not between a few items so that it can't fit through ?  Excuse the poor drawing but something like this

Hash tag ,shit drawing .

[South hams hunter 8,997]

c**ts