It's time now for the chipping forecast, in association with Peter Millar, brought to you by Andrew Cotter, Eddie Pepperel, and special guest Ian Carter. Well, here we are. This is going to be a bumper episode, the third men's major of the year.

Already, third men's? That's either exciting or slightly depressing, depending on your view of life and the unyielding passage of time.

But we'll do a full preview of the US Open at Oakmont, so we're not going to mess around

chatting about all sorts of inanities and take too many diversions. Ian, how's your squirrel deterring

going on? Yeah, the squirrels have calmed down and actually I just was making a cup of tea and

the Robin was really

enjoying the suet cake that's up at the moment so yeah I'm feeling very very good about about the

bird feeder but I am worried obviously I'm going to be away for for two weeks now and you know

whether the rest of the family are going to take as seriously as I do the bird feeding

duty.

The greasing is an area of concern.

Yeah.

Well, we had an email in from Jeremy Latham Sharp who emailed saying that Ian greasing his

poll is pointless.

The only thing that works is something called a squirrel baffle, which I don't know

what it is, but I presume it just confuses them. They look at it and got scratching the little foreheads,

I don't know, what? So, but obviously it's working for you at the moment. Yeah, it seems to be. So,

on the topic of, on the topic of garden, garden wildlife, Jen was out in the garden the other day and she saw a red kite

killer mole pick a mole up oh come on and take it away and carry away so i know we've had mole issues

in the in the in the past andrew but this time around we didn't even need to get anybody around to

take measures so we just got literal work of a mole when it thinks nature

I know that's shocking

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