There’s been a rat mooching around the garden for a few weeks now, getting in through a hole under the fence and scavenging the seeds that have fallen from the bird feeders. Goldfinches are incredibly messy eaters! I’ve managed to get one shot away at him but he moved as I squeezed the trigger and the pellet landed exactly where his brain had been a split-second earlier. I’ve baited the hole a few times to no avail, so when I spotted him taking a drink from the pond, I grabbed the Weihrauch and sent him for his last swim. He – definitely a ‘he’! – was twenty inches long including his tail. Let’s see if any of his family decide to pay us a visit in the weeks to come…
