What I saw today .

[Harnser]

I had a drive around the rape today looking for pigeons . All the rape on my patch is well up and started to flower so I dont have much faith in finding large numbers of birds to shoot untill it has been harvested and I can get on the stubble .

 

I sat in my truck watching the world go by and noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and saw a stoat dragging a half grown rabbit along the hedge row . I thought to my self that old boy was certinly working hard for his dinner and thought it was equivallent to me dragging a cow along to take home for dinner . I saw an old Harnser ( heron ) standing in the shallows of one of the irrigation ditches waiting to catch his dinner . Just out of interest an old Norfolk angling trick was to kill your self a harnser ,cut its feet off and boil them up in a saucepan and then add your ground bait to the liquid . It was thought that when the harnser was standing in the water its feet gave off some kind of scent that attracted fish into catching distance . Fact or fitction I dont know .

 

I saw two nice cull roebucks that were no more than 30 yards from the truck just edging out of a piece of woodland . Saw 25 greylags on the ditch with several assorted ducks . proberbly a dozen house martins scooping up mud for nesting . Saw the evidence of an otter on one of the ditch banks . Looks like he has been eating the fresh water swan mussels as there are loades of empty shells on the bank . I shall have to try and persuade mr otter to move on or he will proberbly eat all the fish in the ditches . Having a good day out on the farm is not just shooting large bags of pigeons . Just keep your eyes open ,its surprising what you can see .

 

Harnser .

[cooter]

I keep seeing pairs of wood peckers on my shoots, green ones and great spotted ones.

I never saw that many last year, so it made me wonder if the loss of the magpies has anything to with it. :blink:

[Doggone]

I keep seeing pairs of wood peckers on my shoots, green ones and great spotted ones.

I never saw that many last year, so it made me wonder if the loss of the magpies has anything to with it. :blink:

Don't be too thrilled about that, I've seen with my own eyes a green woodpecker taking and eating bluetit chicks from the nest.

Andy

[fendrover90]

I had a drive around the rape today looking for pigeons . All the rape on my patch is well up and started to flower so I dont have much faith in finding large numbers of birds to shoot untill it has been harvested and I can get on the stubble .

 

I sat in my truck watching the world go by and noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and saw a stoat dragging a half grown rabbit along the hedge row . I thought to my self that old boy was certinly working hard for his dinner and thought it was equivallent to me dragging a cow along to take home for dinner . I saw an old Harnser ( heron ) standing in the shallows of one of the irrigation ditches waiting to catch his dinner . Just out of interest an old Norfolk angling trick was to kill your self a harnser ,cut its feet off and boil them up in a saucepan and then add your ground bait to the liquid . It was thought that when the harnser was standing in the water its feet gave off some kind of scent that attracted fish into catching distance . Fact or fitction I dont know .

 

I saw two nice cull roebucks that were no more than 30 yards from the truck just edging out of a piece of woodland . Saw 25 greylags on the ditch with several assorted ducks . proberbly a dozen house martins scooping up mud for nesting . Saw the evidence of an otter on one of the ditch banks . Looks like he has been eating the fresh water swan mussels as there are loades of empty shells on the bank . I shall have to try and persuade mr otter to move on or he will proberbly eat all the fish in the ditches . Having a good day out on the farm is not just shooting large bags of pigeons . Just keep your eyes open ,its surprising what you can see .

 

Harnser .

its true what you said about the old harnser they secrete a substance which is said to be similar to aniseed from there feet to draw in the fish strange but true

[fendrover90]

I had a drive around the rape today looking for pigeons . All the rape on my patch is well up and started to flower so I dont have much faith in finding large numbers of birds to shoot untill it has been harvested and I can get on the stubble .

 

I sat in my truck watching the world go by and noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and saw a stoat dragging a half grown rabbit along the hedge row . I thought to my self that old boy was certinly working hard for his dinner and thought it was equivallent to me dragging a cow along to take home for dinner . I saw an old Harnser ( heron ) standing in the shallows of one of the irrigation ditches waiting to catch his dinner . Just out of interest an old Norfolk angling trick was to kill your self a harnser ,cut its feet off and boil them up in a saucepan and then add your ground bait to the liquid . It was thought that when the harnser was standing in the water its feet gave off some kind of scent that attracted fish into catching distance . Fact or fitction I dont know .

 

I saw two nice cull roebucks that were no more than 30 yards from the truck just edging out of a piece of woodland . Saw 25 greylags on the ditch with several assorted ducks . proberbly a dozen house martins scooping up mud for nesting . Saw the evidence of an otter on one of the ditch banks . Looks like he has been eating the fresh water swan mussels as there are loades of empty shells on the bank . I shall have to try and persuade mr otter to move on or he will proberbly eat all the fish in the ditches . Having a good day out on the farm is not just shooting large bags of pigeons . Just keep your eyes open ,its surprising what you can see .

 

Harnser .

its true what you said about the old harnser they secrete a substance which is said to be similar to aniseed from there feet to draw in the fish strange but true

[magman]

Watched a mole hill being made tonight :thumbs:

 

Lets just say that mole will make no more