All the Pigeons have disappeared in Essex?

[MerseaDavid]

Just call if you need a hand! I can be there in 45 mins

 

Steve

 

 

Cheers mate

 

I have got many guns who want to shoot the land but my boss or the other farmers wont allow it.

[MerseaDavid]

Not long until they start drilling the peas (assuming it stops raining soon)

 

We dont normally drill our peas until early to mid march so you have still got a few weeks to go yet mate.

 

Especially if the weather stays like this

[vampire]

Been all rubbish here in Suffolk, best last weekend since Oct/Nov last year, 41 but I reckon I was lucky, everyone I know is complaining, I have seen some big flocks but no chance of getting them, I keep trying though and it get me out of the house and all them little jobs women find for you

Alan

 

 

vampire

Perhaps you ought to venture into suffolk,regular flocks of 300+,seen one field and must have been 2000 at least.

 

As I said above seen them but cant get near them you having better luck then?

Alan,no such luck,very frustrated with pigeons,every time we go out we see huge flocks sitting in the trees and thats where they stay,four of us out last sat to cover as much ground as poss,total of 23 ,who are these blokes that shoot 200 + a day.

I shoot mainly on the A140 corridor from needham,where are you.

[anser2]

Numbers have increased in my area of N Norfolk over the past week , but still well down on average. On the farms i shoot 50 is a common bag with plenty of 100s during the winter on rape. The best bag this year has bee a single 50 then several in the 20s.

[Alanl50]

Alan,no such luck,very frustrated with pigeons,every time we go out we see huge flocks sitting in the trees and thats where they stay,four of us out last sat to cover as much ground as poss,total of 23 ,who are these blokes that shoot 200 + a day.

I shoot mainly on the A140 corridor from needham,where are you.

5 Villages all around Belstead, just outside Ipswich. I was going across some rape on my quad bike last Sunday and a load got off the harvested beet so Ill be on the beet field tomorrow Sat 20th fingers crossed.

Alan

[Dunkield]

They are all in Bucks.

Just not when I go shooting.

[M ROBSON]

We had snow here for far longer than anywhere in England and the numbers of pigeons here haven't been troubled, we've got tens of thousands.

 

They haven't been bothering the rape too much either, only a few more weeks and we should see some drillings appear.

 

Mark.

[cocker3]

just spoke to a couple of keepers in east lothian and they say the fields are blue with birds

but av got to go to work tommorow to fix my landy so sunday it is then

good luck on sat verminator69 wish a could of come ! anyway there seems to be more birds than last week up here in scotland

[PaulABF]

I was out this afternoon. The fields I shoot have been recently ploughed and are sandwiched between two large rape fields bordered by large trees. I've never seen so many pigeons in one place. Flocks of a 1000+ which would lift from the rape, circle and land back on again, unlike the other week when they'd vanish for the day. Whilst one flock was feeding another came in and settled in the trees. I could've cried as the nearest bird was 80 yards from my hide. They taunted me to the stage where I was expecting to be wedgied and my head flushed down the bog. Even after firing a cart they still only circled and landed in the same place.

 

I gave up in the end, blinded by bitter tears and an unsteady gait due to lip wobble.

[cocker3]

Even after firing a cart they still only circled and landed in the same place.

 

I gave up in the end, blinded by bitter tears and an unsteady gait due to lip wobble.

had that aflicktion my self a few times

could you not have moved to where they were ?

[PaulABF]

could you not have moved to where they were ?

 

No. the rape fields aren't my permission and I know from bitter experience that when I move my hide to them at the sitty trees, they'll circle and land at my original position.................mocking me as they do so.

[blasterjudd]

there are lots where i shoot in many groups of 200 300. then group up at the end part of the day must be a good 1000 pigeons if not more.

Send em to essex then mate we will blast em!

Lol

[pondy653]

Found the Essex pigeons today as I headed to Bishops Stortford, field of rape on the side of M11 between J8 and J9 (roadworks), field was completely blue (est 1000+) with a constant steam floating in.

 

If you're from round that way I'd be doing some recce's!

[WAB366]

I shoot in North Dorset and since the snow I find it very hard, its like they've just gone. When I walk upto the woods they would fly out of the trees, but know nothing!