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Wish I'd had my camera still not bad for phone shots. Cheers Arry

Raw egg seems to have stimulated his appetite and milk  have removed most of the ticks and will pop up the abattoir in a bit to get some liver to help replace iron etc Surprised he is still here and n

I see that up at my woodland in Wales.  When the pheasant poults are taken to the release pens , it's not unusual to see 20 to 30 , red kites, buzzards , and ravens , all circling together. Its q

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8 minutes ago, waltjnr said:

Kev if you don't make it ,can I have your bait boat ? 

 

Safe flight mate ,see you soon ! 

Of course mate needs a new atenna and battery but it’s yours. 
 

nice one give you shout to moan about holiday when I’m back :thumbs: 

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17 hours ago, gnipper said:

Exactly what I was thinking mate, people expect deer to be the size of horses don't they so I would imagine they think roe are tiny. Starting to get fallow here now too and more otters.

There's otters everywhere now all over on the Ribble/wyre and  local canal someone filmed one killing a mallard sat on eggs then doing the young but the amount of people that say love otters they only eat fish is incredible they need thinning out 

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1 hour ago, Blackmag said:

There's otters everywhere now all over on the Ribble/wyre and  local canal someone filmed one killing a mallard sat on eggs then doing the young but the amount of people that say love otters they only eat fish is incredible they thinning out 

Up until recently one has been in the local park and I saw a video on Facebook of it taking a full grown duck and it didn't seem arsed about people either. It was only a matter of time before it had a run in with a kid or dog so it's a good thing it got shifted.

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7 hours ago, gnipper said:

Up until recently one has been in the local park and I saw a video on Facebook of it taking a full grown duck and it didn't seem arsed about people either. It was only a matter of time before it had a run in with a kid or dog so it's a good thing it got shifted.

Like you say they are losing that fear of people my mate had one swimming under his rods and playing not far from him  that was Ribchester way 

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16 minutes ago, Blackmag said:

Like you say they are losing that fear of people my mate had one swimming under his rods and playing not far from him  that was Ribchester way 

About 20 years ago Had one come up next to me on a swim below a sluice , I was dead baiting for pike , nose was go8ng so I chucked it a smelt ,sat there and ate it 6 ft from me .. was a pretty surreal moment tbh .. 

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16 minutes ago, Franks dad said:

About 20 years ago Had one come up next to me on a swim below a sluice , I was dead baiting for pike , nose was go8ng so I chucked it a smelt ,sat there and ate it 6 ft from me .. was a pretty surreal moment tbh .. 

Never had a otter that close once had a mink swimming in my swim owner of the fishery shot it had a good few mink with the dogs after antis let a load go from a farm in the late 80s funny I knew were there was a few mink but once I knew otters were about they disappeared a lad on here use to hunt with a mink he put some cracking footage of it hunting I think he lost it forgot his name now but always enjoyed watching it hunt 

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8 minutes ago, Blackmag said:

Never had a otter that close once had a mink swimming in my swim owner of the fishery shot it had a good few mink with the dogs after antis let a load go from a farm in the late 80s funny I knew were there was a few mink but once I knew otters were about they disappeared a lad on here use to hunt with a mink he put some cracking footage of it hunting I think he lost it forgot his name now but always enjoyed watching it hunt 

Yeah seen him on YouTube, never seen a mink , a fair few otters right up close to my boat though 

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14 minutes ago, Blackmag said:

Never had a otter that close once had a mink swimming in my swim owner of the fishery shot it had a good few mink with the dogs after antis let a load go from a farm in the late 80s funny I knew were there was a few mink but once I knew otters were about they disappeared a lad on here use to hunt with a mink he put some cracking footage of it hunting I think he lost it forgot his name now but always enjoyed watching it hunt 

 

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2 hours ago, Blackmag said:

Like you say they are losing that fear of people my mate had one swimming under his rods and playing not far from him  that was Ribchester way 

Seen em round there and also on Calder a few times local

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20 hours ago, lurcherman 887 said:

Myth all that even so what woman would do that I’ve got me own piss anyhow vinegars the one apparently done f**k all for me still here can’t sleep arm in agony ain’t got no better f**k knows what type got me but never felt pain like it. Roll on my flight home tomorrow 

Anti histamine tablets should help

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