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Friday saw me sorting out some domestic situations along with Grandad duties while the wife was out at the stables. DB was working so I decided to do the looking today as it was not fair to shoot myself and then have to find more birds on Saturday with DB. I set out at approx 14.00 hoping to find birds down feeding hard. After five farms no birds, on the sixth I noticed a few flighting to a massive field of rape, as I watched I saw about thirty birds drop in from three directions and then about one hundred lifted out of the tall rape totally hidden from view prior to them lifting. I contacted the farmer by phone and asked if I could drive the tram lines he said no but he would join me and show me a better way to get to the far edge of the field, Twenty minutes later and he drew up and asked me to follow him as we drove to the next farm and across his sheep field. When we arrived at the rape the whole flock lifted and he was amazed at the number. He told me that he had been working at the edge of the field all week and had seen birds flying across the field but could not see them down.

So Saturday morning set out with DB at 08.30 straight to the field and spooked them off to see if they return, went to look at some other rape and came back and they were droping in to the field , drove round and set up. Two on the magnet and ten on the cradles above the rape. It was a north easterly wind off our backs and cloudy which was a good job as the sun was in our faces. The first hour was regular shooting then it slowed right down and at approx 16.00 we had about one hundred and fifty come in all at once then it stopped . It took us a long time to find and pick the shot birds but in the end the total was thirtynine birds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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