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The shot I most regret taking was at a kingfisher...it was when my Beman C1 was brand new and I'd never had a pellet gun with as much velocity and accuracy potential as the one I now had. It was a down hill shot and the kingfisher was on a piling that retained the standing boom. Line of sight...

I tried eating a Douglas Fir squirrel once.....tasty is not the adjective I'd use to describe the experience!!

Just got back from the cabin in Montana that's had a recurring problem with flickers and starlings. Saw where there was a fresh hole in the siding and when approached, a starling went flying out. Patched the hole with a piece of sheet metal and starlings and flickers coming back fairly soon...

Notos all packed up-heading to Mt. to open the cabin for the season....suspect the rats and starlings will be having a celebration in the yard while I'm gone...

The squirrels and I had a "come to Jesus meeting"some years ago when I found that they'd chewed a hole through the rain gutter and gotten into the attic. That was when my wife was out shopping and not aware of what happened. Many generations of squirrels later, there aught to be another...

Have stepped outside 4 or 5 times since 7 this A.M.-check around the bird feeders for rats...NADA...check for starlings in the appropriate impact zones...also NADA....take a few 10m shots at the English ivy berries that are so abundant(and yet unnoticed by the starlings) and head back inside...

I just hope it doesn't distract from their dedication to the airgun sport. Too many irons in the fire....

Picking up pellets....a combination of aging eyes and arthritic fingers is making it a real chore to pick up the little buggers. 177's are almost impossible and .22's are tough, .25's are only slightly easier. Gettin' old is tough!!

I'm familiar with the transplanted walnut tree problem. Neighbor to the north of us has the tree and for years the squirrels were planting trees in the least opportune places. Not sure what the solution was...either the tree is producing far fewer nuts or our putting bird feeders in the yard...

Blowing wind and rain squalls...looking for rats and starlings but so far, no luck....aired up the Notos and the Flash QE just to be ready...

I tried 3 times to edit the post and it looked like a picture was trying to load but got nothin'. Durned computers!!!

Went looking for Starlings but they've made themselves scarce..... perhaps due to the presence of this guy on the power pole next door. Doesn't look like the picture came out right but it's an Osprey and I believe it's eating a rat

I shouldn't have responded with a "wow".....just checked my closet and found the box that my Beeman C1 came in....dated Feb '83....guess I'm a hoarder!!

The young starlings in the neighborhood must be fledged since they're flying all over the place and not as wary as the adults. Missed a few chances but did get a couple with the Notos...

I didn't think tree squirrels were a problem either until they ate a hole through my old plastic rain gutters on the house and got into the attic. Wife still won't let me shoot 'em but at least the gutters are metal now.

There was no damage to his eye other than the "ick" factor and he's much more interested in PB guns now although he still keeps the .177 break barrel I got him, years ago, just inside the back door.

Had just a brief opportunity to get my wife interested in airguns but it didn't last long. Removing slugs from the garden with a BB gun produced a pleasing gut oozing performance by the offending slug whereas the same activity with my Beeman C1 produced an explosive evisceration with no control...

I'm envious!!! Sounds like what I'd wished that I had done but didn't, at least , not to that extent. To this day, I still can't sleep the night before a hunt or even a long fishing trip.

I wish that I'd gone ahead and purchased a Benjamin Discovery kit when they first came out instead of waiting so many years to get into PCP's. May have saved me a bit of money but sacrificed a lot of fun.

Totally overcast at my place....just a cloudy, gray day