Rabbit numbers finally on the incline?

[Black neck 16,762]

5 minutes ago, FLATTOP said:

South Essex 

If your gonna keep insisting i will take u up on your offer Purley 2 help u out pal

[TOMO 27,880]

Had a good score last week on a job...shot 38...of all the places you wouldn't expect or here about good numbers....near Liverpool...few more nights and a few days ferreting on there as well

[dodger 3,402]

Had a mooch around some farms south Essex earlier seemed to be plenty of rabbits about 

[dodger 3,402]

Was mooching about round southwestern Suffolk earlier quite a few rabbits rounds those parts aswell on the lanes n roads 

[OldPhil 5,926]

22 hours ago, dodger said:

Was mooching about round southwestern Suffolk earlier quite a few rabbits rounds those parts aswell on the lanes n roads 

There are pockets of rabbits all over the place,. and I wish them well, I'll never kill another one...

 

Edited May 5 by OldPhil

[mC HULL 14,915]

On 02/05/2025 at 20:19, dodger said:

Had a mooch around some farms south Essex earlier seemed to be plenty of rabbits about 

you see a cross freezing middle aged man in a merc with a whippet it’s out very own @green lurcherslol

[thefensarefarbutistillgo 2,618]

2 hours ago, OldPhil said:

There are pockets of rabbits all over the place,. and I wish them well, I'll never kill another one...

Is that through choice or you got some bad dogs on at the moment lol

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No wonder there on the decline in some parts lol

[Blackmag 6,299]

4 hours ago, OldPhil said:

There are pockets of rabbits all over the place,. and I wish them well, I'll never kill another one...

I don't blame you Phil we have all had hours/ days of sport of bunnies but given their numbers now I like you won't take one infact I perfer to just watch them theses days I have been watching a litter of cubs they have just started coming above ground in the last few days it's been nice to see 

[Blackmag 6,299]

8 hours ago, Blackmag said:

 

 

Edited May 5 by Blackmag

[OldPhil 5,926]

On 04/05/2025 at 22:37, Blackmag said:

I don't blame you Phil we have all had hours/ days of sport of bunnies but given their numbers now I like you won't take one infact I perfer to just watch them theses days I have been watching a litter of cubs they have just started coming above ground in the last few days it's been nice to see 

Yeah,...its just a personal decision Brother ,...I've nothing against any genuine hunting man,.. doing what his conscience dictates,...I've been killing , various quarry, for over 65 years,...and I just felt that, for me,.. enough was enough. I believe in freedom of choice,.. and also minding my own business...I still love my wee mouching curs,...they are obviously not of the same mind-set as myself,. .so,.. accidents do happen, and that doesn't bother me one bit,..it is what it is,...but, like many of my close pals,. we don't go looking for it anymore.

 

Edited May 7 by OldPhil

[Blackmag 6,299]

2 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Yeah,...its just a personal decision Brother ,...I've nothing against any genuine hunting man,.. doing what his conscience dictates,...I've been killing , various quarry, for over 65 years,...and I just felt that, for me,.. enough was enough. I believe in freedom of choice,.. and also minding my own business...I still love my wee mouching curs,...they are obviously not of the same mind-set as myself,. .so,.. accidents do happen, and that doesn't bother me one bit,..it is what it is,...but, like many of my close pals,. we don't go looking for it anymore.

Great post Phil as you age you begin to appreciate nature and your environment more as you know the lust you once had its gone it's nice to just walk out in good company without the need to get anything 

[OldPhil 5,926]

On 05/05/2025 at 21:37, Blackmag said:

Great post Phil as you age you begin to appreciate nature and your environment more as you know the lust you once had its gone it's nice to just walk out in good company without the need to get anything 

True words,.. facts are,  I do miss the hunt,...I guess I always will....

 

 

Edited May 7 by OldPhil

[Neal 1,916]

In my case I've come full circle.

I got my first lurcher because I'd always been out and about watching wildlife and I thought I'd like a canine mate to enjoy it with. As I grew up with a garden full of working terriers and lurchers it was natural to pick a lurcher. However, over the years (particularly the last dozen or so years) I've found that I enjoy the watching more than the catching again.

Just in the last couple of weeks I've enticed a pair of roe does in to within twenty feet and watched them browsing, cleaning (and weeing) for an hour with the dog sat beside me, watched a litter of fox cubs reared under the summer house in next door's garden playing in the patch of nettles at the back of my garden and finally found the ravens' nest in the local forest with two fledgelings.  

...but I did enjoy whacking the baby rats with a big stick as they bolted out from under my shed last week!

Edited May 6 by Neal

[The drover 793]

On 04/05/2025 at 17:58, OldPhil said:

There are pockets of rabbits all over the place,. and I wish them well, I'll never kill another one...

 

Same , I will ferret them in dead of winter and re populate areas around me . Knock an odd one for my da