I was out watching the bay listening to the birds when I spied a red devil. The only reason I did not kill the evil intruder was because the swans were feeding in the bay, I really enjoy watching the swans. I will kill that squirrel, trapping resumes on Monday neighbors know reds are not tolerated. Not fing around either using the 20 gauge.
I got that red devil today in a trap, will continue to monitor. Kinda funny I was over talking to the neighbor and he commented that they have not been seeing any squirrels at all in their yard. I kept a straight face and said they will be back.
I think I killed them all have not seen a squirrel since the last red in a trap, been putting out peanut parts and no squirrels. They will come back and I will kill them too. Chipmunk season coming traps will be out. I am like Egypt, no you can't come here we do not allow it. Kinda funny an old college friend who has moved to California and become a left wing nut, scolded me for killing gray squirrels while he approved of killing chipmunks and red squirrels, I asked him if muskrats were on his approved list of rodents to be culled. He really became a piece of work when he became a safety officer at a corporate level. Living in California telling others what they are wrong about, I know his Wisconsin brothers and they roll their eyes at his California status opinion.
SOB saw a red devil one day, yesterday saw it again and it sat still for too long, I was ready with the 20 gauge took out a very pregnant red squirrel.
Well a new foe has reared its head that will require new tactics. Ants, I will not tolerate ant hills on the steps to the dock, then I mowed and saw several other colonies of the little brown ants. Chemical warfare every colony will be located and decimated, bombing runs every week until there are no more.
I play the long game, I am getting old I guess fretting over the lawn. the ants are where the grass is thin I am working on thickening that up.
During my mowing this morning when I found an active colony I stopped and nuked the hills with killer, I will grid every week and keep mixing up killer.
Was at the hardware store yesterday, Saturday crowd was there I asked if anybody else is seeing more ants. Glen from the cabinet shop told me he has ants like crazy at his shop, he has been burning the nests with diesel. Never trust a cabinet maker missing 2 fingers.
How do ants figure out that there is sweet nectar in the humming bird feeders? I coated the shepards hook with ant spray.
The pressure changes, hot and cold make the syrup expand/contract then it will drip on the ground occasionally. Mine do this occasionally and it drives me nuts, I also have to use “ant” motes above the feeder.
I went out and sprayed the shepherd hooks that hold the jelly for the oriole feeders too, resupplying the ant killer today.
4 shot seems like overkill for a squirrel. I like that! I once made a perfect Kentucky heart shot on a grey squirrel with a ballistic tip 300 winmag at like 25 yds. A lot of meat damage, only thing I recovered was a single back leg.
So yesterday I redeployed the traps for chipmunks, traditional snap rat trap. I set one down by the fire pit. While I was walking around blasting ant nests I notice a squirrel hanging around the area. Got done with the ant spray and go check out the trap, before I even got there I see the squirrel sitting on a wood duck house eating a peanut, sure enough the squirrel had got into the trap got out and took a peanut. I get to the trap and there was just a little blood on it figured the critter learned a lesson and reset the trap, not 10 minutes later the fool was in the trap again only this time it could not get out. Next enemy on the list creeping Charlie.
Been trapping, now getting mice in the rat traps so poison deployed. Ants are way down now too. I have moved onto lawn weeds and the ****ing around is pretty much over. Triclopyr Ester and Quinclorac 75 DF is on order, there will be nothing but turf.
Tim, I'm not killing reds or Grey's, but this guy wanderd in the wrong yard this morning. 22 mag to the ear hole.
