Safe Gardening

SKIPPY54

:eek: After fiddling with the pond filters I decided to call it a day then crack zing and again I was running for cover. After being shot at before I knew the sound, the wife and I have found pellets and a broken pane in the greenhouse so now it was find the culprit, four doors away I found him.

the pokice confiscated the rifle and in his defence his father said he must have been shooting a bird from his bedroom window:mad: . That explains the blackbirds with broken limbs but now we are all safe.

Happy Gardening

Plum_Pie

!!!!!!!!!!!! Wot a little s0d!

How did someone so stupid get hold of a gun? (Actually I don't want to hear the answer to that.)

Personally I don't think 'It's only an air rifle' is a good excuse as 1)they can blind people and 2)if you're shot in a joint (someone I know was shot in the elbow with one!), there can be long-term damage.

Gardening-girl_5

Could he be reported to the RSPCB or RSPCA? don't know if their services apply to garden birds? (I know you can be prosecuted for killing protected species but then, even our garden bird numbers are dwindling to what they were years ago) If not they should be. I agree with Plum pie, and you were lucky you weren't hit Skippy.

Mudbath

Little ***! This happened to us when we were working at our allotment last year. We were shot at with BB guns but it could still have taken an eye out. We phoned the police who responsed fantastically and five children aged 10 to 12 were caught and five BB guns confiscated. Let's just hope the parents gave them what for when they were taken home! Glad you're ok.

squiggle37

OMG thats terrible, says alot about his parents letting him have a gun.
Glad you're ok

SKIPPY54

:T thanks everyone

No need for tin hats today ! the birds have all been safe as have I and here's what I saw
there was a woodpecker on the peanuts , sparrows ( dozens) , starlings the same, dunnocks, two families of blackbirds , a songthrush and a mistlethrush, a robin, , a few newly fledged coal tits, a rook looking for newly fledged coaltits a couple of blue tits, and flying over were two oyster catchers , gulls probably going to the tip, woodcock and swifts.

A startled wood pigeon eating my broad beans. as our cat walked past but the cat was more startled than he was I think

Thanks for all your concern and all safe from flying lead today:T

timbim_2

Legally, if you can provide the pellet that nearly hit you, he should have to pay £1000 as a first offence for his ammunition leaving his property.

kazwookie

Yep me to.

About 6 years ago minding my own business on my patio reading, when I am showered in lump / bits of glass.

The 'yob' 3 doors down has shot my bedroom window and the glass came down over me.

Now ex hubby went round there and had a right 'discussion' with lad's father.

You could hear the father and son rowing about 20mins later, the father was very cross, can round and paid for the broken window a coupel of days later.

KAAT_LADY

Well SKIPPY glad to know you are okay now and everythongs changed for the better . You seem to have a lot of different birds there are you in a bird sanctuary