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On my futile travels of late looking for pigeons on stubbles I have seen pigeons feeding on food sources other than rape, wheat and barley left behind by the combine.

 

On Friday I saw pigeons on Elderberries and on the same day I saw a few going into both laid spring barley and wheat. On Saturday whilst watching a rape stubble over which a great some birds were flying even more were trying to get into a field of standing beans next to it. Agde Cutler reports that there are some on beech mast in his area. It will not be long before ivy berries are an attractant.

 

I have never had much success on winter drillings but I am looking forward to finding a few on bean stubbles.

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On my futile travels of late looking for pigeons on stubbles I have seen pigeons feeding on food sources other than rape, wheat and barley left behind by the combine.

 

On Friday I saw pigeons on Elderberries and on the same day I saw a few going into both laid spring barley and wheat. On Saturday whilst watching a rape stubble over which a great some birds were flying even more were trying to get into a field of standing beans next to it. Agde Cutler reports that there are some on beech mast in his area. It will not be long before ivy berries are an attractant.

 

I have never had much success on winter drillings but I am looking forward to finding a few on bean stubbles.

Actually saw some on elderberries today at the Cotswold Water Park and about twenty birds stripping an ornamental berry shrub in a nearby garden...don't know what species of shrub though.

 

You are right though wood pigeons are pretty cosmopolitan in their tastes

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