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Yesterday afternoon with a nice stiff breeze from the west seemed a good opportunity to vist my favourite pigeon wood. Roughly a hundred yards square it sits mid field in what appears to be an area not capable of being drained. Over the past five years myself and usually one other gun have picked up some useful bags here, decoying when crops were suitable and roost shooting when good conditions prevailed. Our last good roost shoot would be February 2012 when 2 of use took 19 birds each under a half westerly gale. 2013 was useless here with at seed time few birds coming to roost. It was evident then, and again last night that the big flocks had deserted. Usually the wood reeked of pigeon poo with which it was well bespattered, and the ground thick with feathers. What was evident last spring was a pair of buzzards in residence, circling and calling, and again the same thing two weeks ago on an earlier vist. Last night strangely the buzzards were not in evidence, the same being true for the pigeons. Four lone birds beating into the wind and missed handsomely as they flared into the wood, a pack of five and one down ro the first barrel and that was it. So have any members found that a resident pair of buzzards will discourage pigeons from using a roost wood? Blackpowder
