Beans

[bucolic]

My farmer put in two fields of beans a few weeks back and the young shoots are comming through nicely the pigeons dont seem to be bothered is this normal?

Edited November 15, 2010 by bucolic

[proTOM1]

My farmer put in two fields of beans a few weeks back and the young shoots are comming through nicely the pigeons dont seem to be bothered is this normal?

 

It depends on what else there is around really ,i find they only like the beans when drilled and cut

[bunny_blaster]

By the looks of things on here the birds havent really hit the beans that much at all this year.

 

Cheers

Ben

[bucolic]

The only thing I can put it down to is that there is a large wood on the edge of the bean fields on one side and two rape fields on the other, but having said that they are not hitting the rape either, when I have done a reccy the few pigeons there are fly over both sets of fields, I am baffled.

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

Beans at that stage of growth will not be eaten by woodies.

 

Just because you have crops birds like EG OSR and good ground like a mix of woods and arable does not always equal woodies.

 

So nowt to be baffled about just could be that you have very few woodies.

 

Also it can be that certain farms attract woodies more in the spring and another farm attracts them more in the winter.

 

Regards OTH

[bucolic]

You could be right about not many pigeons around, like I said when I did a reccy the few pigeons I saw just carried on and flew over every thing, this all may change later on, I hope it does.

[woody swacker]

My farmer put in two fields of beans a few weeks back and the young shoots are comming through nicely the pigeons dont seem to be bothered is this normal?

in thirty years of woody shooting i have never seen pigeons going on emerging beans

[bucolic]

Thanks for your answers they have been interesting.