Then up to the B&B, as I pulled into the car park there was one juvenile on the front lawn, it stayed put until I shot it from the car at about 15 yards and then it bounced about like a demented jack in the box. The back lawn had 2 adults feeding, 1 of these was showing signs of recovering from myxi so I took the other. A quick peek over the fence showed a number of rabbits in the field so I picked the healthiest looking one in range and popped an AA Field in the perfect place, no twitch or kick, just a slow drop to the grass. I gathered up the bounty and returned to the stables for a chat with Bernard and to let him have a few for the dogs.
I finished the evening by going to the big grass field with the pond, it was cut for silage yesterday so I drove round in 1st gear on dipped beam and picked off another 5, lovely easy shooting.
I was surprised at the numbers here because I've been seeing very few by daylight.
Finally the winter blues are gone!
A pic of the 5 from the field.
Your lucky you can get that close to them with out too much agro, round here you can see signs of plenty and see them from a distance but they're so skittish getting in to air rifle range is becoming quite an ask 
Hopefully when the young ones start to show themselves they'll bit a bit less wary for a while at least 
