cocker3 Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 well i have been doing alot of pigeon shooting over the last week .i have shot almost 500 since boxing day (well me and one or two good mates )and what i have noticed is that there are a lot of young birds in the ones we have shot to day we shot 120 and out of that there must ave been 30-35 young birds in with them and we noticed loads of them coming into the decoys. has any one else noticed large numbers of young birds about i would have thought with all the cold weather we have had 4 weeks of snow on the ground that they would not have been breading but it just goes to show how tough and adaptable these birds are to weather conditions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Yes seeing quite afew young birds but what you have to remember is they dont get there white neck till there a good 2 to 3 months old ,having said that we shot 1 on sat that still had fluff on it and had only just come off a nest which is crazy but thats then sign of the times with there breeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprinter Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Shot 2 the other day flighting in which looked like they had just come off the nest. One of them was really tiny, smaller than a collared dove and all fluffy, trust me to pick that one out of a flock of 100 overhead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 The dog picked up a fresh off the nest Woodie 2 weeks ago. It was skin and bone and cold hardly fly. They are nesting all year around here now, especially in evergreen garden shrubs, I even saw an adult bird return to a nest in a straw barn on our shoot on Thursday last week! Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 i never see any young pigeons round here till august,september time, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Had a couple today god knows how they have survived the snow and freezing temperatures A tough resilient bird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr D Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 same here. I have shot over 300 during the holidays. quite a few without neck rings and the tell tale brownish tinge to the feahters of a young bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootnfish Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 i shot 3 on sunday,first young ones for a while though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted January 6, 2011 Report Share Posted January 6, 2011 had 1 young bird from a bag of 29 last week ;seeing and shooting them all year round now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I've seen 6 young birds shot this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 as i said above i never see young birds about till aug/sep/but yesterday i shot my first one,never done this in all the years iv been shooting.this time of year.that was on rape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Beasley Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I was going to post a topic about this myself..... there does seem to be an unusual amount of young birds about right now. Probably shot 15-20 in the last 10 days. Bizarre, but real! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootnfish Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 had another 2 yesterday out of 27. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) same as above 2 out of 36 today on rape Edited January 11, 2011 by yickdaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinodad Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Loads of young ones in west Yorkshire. On one permission there is a flock of about 300 young birds doing the rounds. They decoy well though!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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