M ROBSON

Yes, but i wouldn't advise disturbing them from woods, this would be a sure fire way of ruining a good roost. I was more qureous as to weather people had seen or shot them on fields feeding under the moon.

It is a marker. Just looks like a locked topic marker, it comes and goes as you log on. :*)

Shooting under the moon is no different to shooting during the day. There is no form of artificial light envolved.

There isn't any problem sending a post. Maybe it's a personal marker to show which topics i've sent posts to.

I've noticed that everything i send a post to gets a locked topic envelope. Have i set up my member details wrong?

I think its illigal to lamp birds at night.

I've been out lamping rabbits in the past and after shooting a few, piled them up next to a wall, this was a big mistake! In the time it took to walk along a banking (about five minutes) the rabbits were crawling in rats, some had there eyes missing and others had their ears eaten off. I would say anything dead will do the trick.

Humans and apes are the only animals that can see in full colour. Well thats what they said on the TV anyway.

I was doing a moon flight a couple of seasons ago on the Tay, it was a very cold night, about -6. At about one in the morning i was walking off the marsh when i saw a pigeon fly along a hedgerow in front of me and land into a corner of a winter rape field. As i got closer my dog put six pigeon out of the same corner. I would be interested to see if anyone else has seen this before, it could have been down to the long cold spell, we came close to a cold weather ban that year. Could be a new line of sport, Pigeon by moonlight!!

Last year I was helping my dad keep pigeons off a local veg farm. Everytime I was down there I noticed a flightline of Jackdaws across the corner of one of the fields, coming from an old castle ruin, so one day I decided to set up there. They cept coming all day, I was using the dead birds as decoys and as the numbers mounted up the birds were getting more and more confident. In the end you could stand out in the open and they were'nt paying any notice. I ended up with 80! One thing i have noticed this year is they won't fly on that same flightline anymore.

I use the Cabelas web site for all my shooting and fishing gear. One tip is to declare the item you buy as a gift and if it is valued less than £50 you don't pay any import tax.

The spring rape around here is about the size of a key-ring tab at the moment, But there are still birds feeding on hammered winter rape. Parts of the fields are in flower while other parts are only a foot tall still. In some areas the birds were left alone all winter and have ruined huge areas of fields.