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The wheat has yet to be cut but its looking good so far. Seen a fair few average sized broods of wild pheasants i.e threes and fours, but last week saw the biggest brood I have ever seen, a hen with 13 five week old poults.

 

Was lamping the other night and nearly ran over my precious covey of grey partridge, luckily I was only crawling along at walking pace yet they still got up from under the wheels. They fluttered left and right a few feet before clamping down, only about five or six young though. Seen some barren pairs aswell but generally greys keep a low profle until the last fields have been cut, hopefully there will be more coveys yet to be seen.

 

I had not seen a wild redleg poult for two years (and that was on its own) but on the same patch where I say the greys whilst lamping I saw a pair of redlegs with ten well grown poults.

 

Greylags have done very well as always but the average brood size is probably down a little bit due to the cold spring. Ducks have done very well with their second broods, anything thats hatched from the beginning of June onwards seems to have thrived.

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we have had a good wild bird breeding season, although there is still al ot of fields standing, so you cannot see the true extent of how many chicks there are, you get a rough idea of how many there are by looking on the outsides, we have seen around 50+ wild pheasants, which are good looking birds, also seen around 30+ french partridge chicks (look like bumble bees with legs) and about 10+ english partridge chicks. Although we deal with many thousands of pheansants, its always nice to see the truely wild birds surviving and breeding. The only shame is when the pheasant poults that have been brought kill the wild ones, but nothing can stop that.

Rob

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best year ever on my shoot acording to the boss

every pair of partridge seems to have some young at foot best brood seen is 12 about 6 weeks old, average is about 5 though

 

most pheasants have reared something aswell average is about 3 though biggest brood 7

 

and we have ducklings everywhere, seen some just hatched only last week a bit late as there in season soon

had 2 pair of tufted nest this year for first time aswell this year one only hatched 3 and 1 survived the other hatched 5 all still going. :P

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best year ever on my shoot acording to the boss

every pair of partridge seems to have some young at foot best brood seen is 12 about 6 weeks old, average is about 5 though

 

most pheasants have reared something aswell average is about 3 though biggest brood 7

 

and we have ducklings everywhere, seen some just hatched only last week a bit late as there in season soon

had 2 pair of tufted nest this year for first time aswell this year one only hatched 3 and 1 survived the other hatched 5 all still going. :D

 

Are the partidge greys or redlegs? On our little patch my brother saw a covey of greys with ten or eleven poults so we now have two precious coveys :P If it carries on like this we may even have enough to shoot some in three or four years time :/ .

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Our best red-leg brood is a 21! Theres also a 17 and a 10. The greys haven't shown themselves yet, but theres definitely one barren pair. The black grouse seem to be doing well but the red grouse are few and far between.

 

Rob

Rob,

 

Are these Redlegs the progeny of birds released onto the hill?

 

Our wild Redlegs have not done at all well for a few years now and I was wondering if it was because they were getting 'diluted' by the increased amounts of reared birds. If your birds are ex released stock that are successfully breeding then I am probably mistaken.

 

Glad to hear that the blackgrouse are doing well, its one bird that I've never seen.

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Rob,

 

Are these Redlegs the progeny of birds released onto the hill?

 

Our wild Redlegs have not done at all well for a few years now and I was wondering if it was because they were getting 'diluted' by the increased amounts of reared birds. If your birds are ex released stock that are successfully breeding then I am probably mistaken.

 

Glad to hear that the blackgrouse are doing well, its one bird that I've never seen.

 

I'm pretty sure they are young of released birds, but can't be 100% certain. The predator control on the area is second to none.

 

Rob

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