hot afternoon

[crowcaller]

had a phone call from a friend to say a field of barley had been cut, got to the field at 12/30 lots of birds in trees and birds flying over. SET UP NEAR A PIT PUT OUT DEEKS AND HAD 2 BIRDS FOR WHIRLY IN TEN MINS.BIRDS STARTED TO COME IN GOOD, THEN FARMER CAME IN THE FIELD AND STARTED TO TURN THE STRAW AND IT DEFO. PUT OFF SOME OF THE BIRDS.STILL HAD BIRDS PASSING AND SHOT SOME VERY GOOD PIGEONS , IT WAS THE HOTTEST DAY SO FAR AND BEING SHELTERD AT THE PIT IT WAS VERY HOT INDEED IN THE HIDE, IT TOOK ABOUT 2 HOURS FOR FARMER TO FINISH AND THOUGH SOME BIRDS DID COME IN TO DEEKS THEY CAME BETTER AFTER HE HAD GONE, FINISHED UP WITH 40 DOWN BUT ONLY PICKED 31 LOST BIRDS IN A BEAN FIELD AT THE BACK OF PIT AND A OAT FIELD TO MY LEFT, NOT THE BIGGEST BAG PUT A VERY ENJOYABLE AFTERNOON.