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I had an un expected call from a farmer last night that I had emailed 2 months ago. Its a farm I have shot at a couple of times, but haven't been there since spring last year due to the weather and the shoot politics. Any how, apparently there were a lot of crows on the wheat that was drilled a couple of days ago. So I took a run over there today. I arrived at 8.45, watched the flightlines from the truck for a bit and picked a spot in front of a large ok. Typically, the place you have to be is always as far from the truck as you can get I had bought one of the Ameristep bale pop up hides, thinking it would be just the job for these cool early spring days. Whilst the sun was breaking through, the wind was up a bit and I was grateful not to be in a net hide with the breeze cutting through. Bit of dressing, and a roof and then put the deeks out. I put out 6 FB deeks and as soon as I had nailed 4 real birds the deeks came in. I had to adjust the roof several times as they were coming in from quite high up and very spooky. Getting the recipe right restricted the shooting, but it had to be done. View from inside the hide. I called it a day at 4.30 with 115, two in the brambles so 113 in the pic. It has taken me a few years of trying, but have finally made the Ton As I was packing up, the farmer appeared. He was "slightly" pleased!! A couple of them had beak deformaties. This one is undershot. and this one a crossbill It was a cracking day, am now celebrating with a large whisky :good: