verminator69 Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Some decent bags there fella i think a lot of doos have left East Lothian and moved to the Kingdom because there's very little here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted April 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 There has been a good number of birds all winter, I'd say our numbers are on a steady increase in thi area. We get very few Scandinavian birds in our bags through the winter but I did notice some in a bag last week, would have thought they'd be moving off by now, or maybe their on the way north from somewhere else down south??? cheers, Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 There has been a good number of birds all winter, I'd say our numbers are on a steady increase in thi area. We get very few Scandinavian birds in our bags through the winter but I did notice some in a bag last week, would have thought they'd be moving off by now, or maybe their on the way north from somewhere else down south??? cheers, Mark. How do you tell between a scandanavian and a normal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingercoxy Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 How do you tell between a scandanavian and a normal? scandanavian birds are normally better looking than our birds coxy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted April 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 How do you tell between a scandanavian and a normal? Although we don't get that many around here it is quite easy to tell when they do appear in the bags. They are a bit smaller than our local birds, about the same size as a young local bird. I always think they feel a bit skinny and underweight compared to the big fat ones we have around here! They also have a darker breast, instead of the soft pink on a local bird they have a more reddish brown tint to their chest. Especially further up the neck, arround the bottom of the spot. It's quite noticable when you have a local and Scandinavian bird side by side. My guess is these birds were coming north from their wintering grounds...France....Spain...?? I wish I'd taken a picture for comparison, their away to the game dealer now. Cheers, Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Although we don't get that many around here it is quite easy to tell when they do appear in the bags. They are a bit smaller than our local birds, about the same size as a young local bird. I always think they feel a bit skinny and underweight compared to the big fat ones we have around here! They also have a darker breast, instead of the soft pink on a local bird they have a more reddish brown tint to their chest. Especially further up the neck, arround the bottom of the spot. It's quite noticable when you have a local and Scandinavian bird side by side. My guess is these birds were coming north from their wintering grounds...France....Spain...?? I wish I'd taken a picture for comparison, their away to the game dealer now. Cheers, Mark. Thanks for the reply! I'll keep an eye out from now on, (maybe I'll get one when they come a bit further north but unlikely ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted April 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 (edited) One of the few lady shooters I get with her bag today, 81 on the clicker for 198 shots. IMAG0029 by mj robson, on Flickr 449 pigeons shot in the last 2 days. Edited April 6, 2011 by M ROBSON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenntay Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Although we don't get that many around here it is quite easy to tell when they do appear in the bags. They are a bit smaller than our local birds, about the same size as a young local bird. I always think they feel a bit skinny and underweight compared to the big fat ones we have around here! They also have a darker breast, instead of the soft pink on a local bird they have a more reddish brown tint to their chest. Especially further up the neck, arround the bottom of the spot. It's quite noticable when you have a local and Scandinavian bird side by side. My guess is these birds were coming north from their wintering grounds...France....Spain...?? I wish I'd taken a picture for comparison, their away to the game dealer now. Cheers, Mark. mark we get alot of scandinavian bird appear in winter feeding on the acorns and beech mast here in cumbria they seem to disapear about febuary time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted April 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 (edited) We may get a lot more passing through here at the start of the winter but I'm busy with goose shooters then. We don't really start hitting the pigeons hard till the start of February. It was the last of a 3 day trip today for my group, ended up with a total of 606 pigeons. Cheers, Mark. Edited April 7, 2011 by M ROBSON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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