welcome .
nice guns to work on .

no rabbit . just cold like today Graham .

sling stud all the way .

sorry to hear that never easy .
I know .

15 last night.

I use photon great kit with extra ir for rats out to 35 yards .
I just had ns 200 ok but screen was not clear for me .
on rats I have used green or red filters on lamp with a
dimmer it did the job fine till the rats get lamp shy .
lamp is good first option or add on are worth a look .
atb paul.

trip out to the perm and farmers wife is so happy to see me .
squirrels have drove her mad raiding the feeder .
so set up shot one on the feeder then one in the ash tree .
plus a rabbit nice afternoon in all to finish the year off.

pretty sure that using any form of night vision to take birds would be classed as using artificial illumination, check up with BASC but i`m sure that's illegal, set up a hide and nail them using normal sights then when it`s too dark gather up any birds and head home to prep them other than feral pi...

so sorry to hear that ,I know how you feel
having lost mum this year .
paul.

get to see it back to its best again well done .