No wind, Big flocks?

[soreshoulder]

i have been noticing the last couple of days that there has been little or no wind, and the pigeons that weren't in one flock, just lots of smaller ones have now ganged up even with it being so warm yesterday.

 

Last Saturday i pushed about 300 birds out of a small wood and they came back in 3-4 which provided some good shooting, however i sat in the wood again 3 days after hoping for the same result but there was very little activity except from the huge flock on the rape? Does the wind direction determine where they roost or how they feed, because last Saturday there was a good Northerly wind and the birds seemed to be feeding on the ivy and had seem to of broken up a bit from the flocks?

 

Can anyone shed some light?

[Cranfield]

IMO pigeons like to be comfortable and strong winds across a feeding field will push them off to somewhere more sheltered (often woods or hedgerows).

I also think its the same with roosting, the stronger the wind, the deeper they will go into the wood.

[foghorn]

Hi, Last Friday i was flightline/roost shooting they were very high but there was a bit of wind and were coming in, on Sunday stood in the same spot no wind no pigeons, they were at the other side of the wood.

[proTOM1]

To me wind is very important i think for decoying or roost shooting . I had been watching a maize cover strip for a few days with good numbers on wind 10 mph sw today wind se and not any on and yes there was still plenty of food to go at i find this alot . as for wind with roosting i find if wind is in the north birds will head to different woods than if in the south plus with no wind they can be high and fly more distance to get to a wood