How many birds are in you part of the world

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

Just wondered whats happening in you next of the woods since the snow and cold.

 

Bascially I covered 150 miles today looked at over 50 fields of rape and stubble etc accross three counties oxon wilts bucks .

 

And saw very few birds to talk about how is shaking down in your part of the world.

 

And the threads by land standing member who shot regular good bags have tailed off as well.

 

Regards OTH

[proTOM1]

There is plenty round us at the moment some on rape but now mainly on the cover strips ,i plan to start cutting them on the 3rd of feb when we get the pens out of them that is .

 

Hope to get stuck into the birds a bit at roost after hare shooting next sat tho should be good !

[Cranfield]

There seems to be a steady build up in numbers on the rape now, as the berries seem to have almost gone.

Give it another couple of weeks, with a few frosts and no significant snow and things should hot up.

[chubbs45]

nearly all round here (north norfolk ) are hitting the cover crops hard even though they are yet to be cut !! but 2 of my shoots are cutting tuesday wednesday so hoping the end of the week will produce some good days . nothing on the rape at all , usual stuff 2 shots and gone forever

 

chubbs

[mossy835]

lots of pigeons on the rape fields, but hard to decoy.

[beerdeor]

On ,my land in bucks last weekend 200+ flock on rape one shot they where gone did a bit of rekky found a nice sitty tree one the edge of the rape feild they came in the tree for a bit but it was very much keep mobile covered all 700 acres during the day took 40 birds in the end not a massive day but well deservered for the effort I put in

This is my first winter on the pigeon and its been a massive learning curve but above everything I have learned keep ypur eyes peeled and be mobile

atb Jim

[BaconBoy]

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[Lez325]

I managed 20 yesterday over Rape- but saying that I usually see 200 - 300 so the numbers are definatley down- I saw maybe 30 odd birds which seemed reluctant to come into the pattern- maybe its just me lol

 

Les

[rjimmer]

I saw a flock of several hundred crossing the A35 near Bere Regis yesterday.

[MerseaDavid]

Just got back from shooting on one of our rape fields, we managed 26 but it was very hard, we then went roost shooting and shot another 12.

 

We saw thousands of birds everywhere going into trees and diving on to a couple of cover crops on our neighbours farm.

Edited January 30, 2010 by MerseaDavid

[dead eye alan]

out befor light this morning on rape decoyed ok had 23 by 12 o,clock then nowt after the big flocks are starting to break up so should get better the lightre nites will be hear soon too good luck to you all

[SSS]

There must have been 400-500 on the OSR, as soon as I fetched the gun - nothing!