Over run

[growalot]

Mr B came home the other day and said...you need to do something about the rabbits...No kidding!!...He's been seeing several everyday driving to and from work ...I kick them up every time I cross the street...and to day I pushed 6 off the clover plot in pic...big suckers to .....Good thing I have cages around the fruit trees...they keep setting off the moultrie but I'm not catching pics of any thing...

one reason why I'm changing cams.....

Looks like I'll be busy this fall...

[PREDATE]

Once the predators and raptors catch on they should thin them back to normal #s. The ones that survive will be the ones that learn quick to hide! Those are easy pickins' for a red-tail.

[Five Seasons]

I once had like 60 pics of a rabbit over an hour. He just hopped around eating the clover and it kept taking pics haha

[Doc]

I watched one this morning down by the barn. He was heading for the garden. I'll probably find him laying on the lower strand of the electric fence. I have one strand that is about 3" off the ground for the little critters. it works great for saving the garden. The top strand and the welded wire fencing keeps the deer and other things out. Unfortunately, the smaller creatures find that lower strand lethal.

[growalot]

I use the bird net fencing they don't like running in to it...but every thing but ,the food plot ,that lines the garden is natural occurring clover and that helps as well...

[growalot]

You know what this means don't you?...I'll have work hard at finding a nice early bow deer and then the rest of the time honing in my rifle skills on the rabbits...just in case the rifle bill goes through...contingencies...contingencies...  

[Five Seasons]

I use the bird net fencing they don't like running in to it...but every thing but ,the food plot ,that lines the garden is natural occurring clover and that helps as well...

 

same here. easier to put up and I think there's something about the net that freaks them out. Like maybe they dont see it like a normal fence, then they feel it and do the "deer freakout". I'm wondering how easy it'll be to reuse next year though and if it'll not just be easier to buy more.

[growalot]

I've had mine for a couple of years...use it on the grapes and blue berries also ...damn sparrows

[landtracdeerhunter]

Seems to be an ideal year for rabbits.

[shawnhu]

I've had mine for a couple of years...use it on the grapes and blue berries also ...damn sparrows

Sparrows are game all year, got a kid itching to shoot? Give him a break barrel .177 and put em to work!

[Elmo]

Sparrows are game all year, got a kid itching to shoot? Give him a break barrel .177 and put em to work!

 

Just make sure they're European Sparrows which are an invasive species.  Local native sparrows are not game animals.

[growalot]

Old softy that I am....had to release two last week that had gotten tangled in the netting....bit for the effort but off they flew...to bug me another day...lol

[ctballos]

A funny rabbit story.  I live in the Village of Hyde Park. A couple years ago a family down the street was ordered by the town to stop raising rabbits. They faught the Town but lost. So they opened the cage doors and let them loose. In the beginning we had close to a dozen of the critters running the neighborhood. I would look into my back yard and see a few of them grazing and think of the air rifle in the closet. I never shot any though. It also didn't take them long to realize my tied up beagle could only go so far and they would sit just outside his reach eating. The dog also new he had reach limitations and would sit there for hours glaring at them. You don't know how many times I wanted to accidentally unhook him. Anyway we seem to be down to two left. I guess the others got eaten.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Wild rabbits all over here. Must be on their 3rd litter. Got rabbits running out of the hay, ahead of the haybine. 

 

We're also loaded with fat field mice and wooly bear catipillars. Alot of dark on both ends. Hope that doesn't mean a bad beginning and end to winter.