The first pic is me standing in my backyard looking out at thecircled area, the general area where the little fleabags show up. That hill thereis what I call "the hill". The "mound" is a different thing and i'll get to that shortly. The center of that circled area is about 50 yards out from the fenceline, with the left being closer and the right being farther away. I'm probably at least 65~70 yards away from the center of that circled area from my vantage point. If I go up to my fenceline there, then that puts me about 50 yards away from the center of that circled area. The extreme right of the circled area is approx 75~80yards and increases as you go further right. This pic was taken from a high vantage point in my backyard where I sometimes take offhand shots after the targets havebeen verified as vermin.
The second pic is taken at myfencelinelooking out at the lower rightmost area of the first pic, which is not included in the first pic because it was blocked by the neighbors trees, which I cropped out, so thatarea is not seen in the first pic. I'm still in my backyard looking out at the hill which contains a false alarm bush to the left and a squirrel "mound" to the right. The mound is a burrow, with excavated dirt around it, resembling a burm of sorts.The ground squirrels live in the ground and not in the trees at all. They make those burrows and although you cant see them the hill is pock marked with them. Cattle ranchers hate these squirrels because the cattle can easily break their ankles in the burrows. That mound is definately at least a 100yrd shot. But I have to go to the left on my fenceline in order to get a shot at it, because the right corner is not at the proper angle to get at the mound.
The third pic is just simply a closeup of the second, showing you a better view of the false alarm bush and squirrel mound/burrow/hole whatever...
I just realized that I live here and you guys don't so it's kinda hard to understand what is going on here. Basically, from my backyard, I can see a huge hill that has areas where the squirrels frequent, until they are promtly sniped, and then new ones come around from the other side of the hill in a day or two.
This is what typical grassland looks like in California after about ~May...dry, brown, dusty, and thirsty little critters everywhere. And although there are no Oaks in the pic, typically the grassland is scattered sparselywith Oak trees. In fact in pic 2 you can see the Oaks way way out in the hills on the horizon.
