windmig Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Hi, my name is Michael. I am 44, married with 4 children and a dog (épagneul Breton in French – I think that it is Brittany dog in English). I am French. I live and work near Paris. My favourite hunt is to run after snipes and woodcocks in Normandy (north-west of France) with my dog. My greatest pleasure is when my dog succeeds in pointing a snipe as I consider these birds as one of the most difficult to hunt. I also hunt ducks at night as we are allowed to do it in France. I own a little hut where we spend our nights with my friends, waiting for wild ducks to shortly stop on our pond, attracted by the domestic ones we breed. As I am very interested in bird’s migration, I decided to create a web site in order to follow their migration through Europe. It was a huge job as I did everything on my own but it is now operational. The address of the website is: http://windmig.com/english.html WindMig is currently used by many French hunters. I have recently translated the website in order to propose four new languages: English, Spanish, Italian and German. Two Spanish hunters joined us recently and I have nice contacts with some Italian guys that are about to participate. The aim of WindMig is to provide a European view of the migration. It would be great if some English hunters would take the time to share with us their own bird observations. In order to complete this quick picture of WindMig, the website also provides weather forecasts maps and detailed weather information for any point in Europe. I thought that it would be useful for hunters in order to help them anticipating bird’s movements. I am sorry to start my presentation on this great forum with some advertising but I feel that WindMig is a good and new idea. It would be a great success to give an British touch to this website and I don’t know how to reach Great Britain hunters otherwise from France. Thanks a lot for reading me and don't hesitate to ask me any questions concerning this project. Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xav Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Michael, Merci pour votre email et votre site tres interessant. Je m'appelle Xavier, j'ai 41 ans et je suis francais. J'habite dans le Wirral (pres de Liverpool) et chasse le gibier d'eau dans la baie de la Dee. L'estuaire de la Dee est l'une des zones d'hivernage les plus importantes au niveau europeen concernant les canards pilets. Je n'hesiterai pas a me brancher sur le site pour donner mes observations. J'enverrai le lien du site a mes collegues du club. Xavier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windmig Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Hello Xavier, thank you for your answer !!! Etonnant et sympathique de tomber sur un sauvaginier français vivant dans le nord de l'Angleterre ! J'ai regardé le Wirral sur la carte : le coin a l'air chouette. On sent qu'il y a de l'eau dans le secteur... Je cherche depuis quelques temps à trouver des gens potentiellement intéressés par mon projet et j'avoue que je désespérais un peu... Mais ton message encourageant me donne du baume au coeur. Merci beaucoup. Comment se retrouve-t-on chasseur de gibier d'eau au UK ? Et à quoi ressemble ta chasse ? Au plaisir de te lire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xav Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Bonjour Michael, Et bien je dois dire que j'ai beaucoup de chance. Je chasse depuis plus de 20 ans et lorsque j'ai demmenage en Angleterre il y a 12 ans je n'ai pas eu de difficulte a trouver plusieurs coins ou faisans,lapins et aussi becasses (sans compter les pigeons) sont nombreux. En plus, comme j'habite a 10 minutes d'acces de la baie, j'ai adhere a l'association de chasse de gibier d'eau locale. Je chassais en baie de Somme avant et ici les conditions sont un peu differentes bien que les pricipes soient les memes. Pas de chasse a la hutte, mais passees du matins et du soir avec blettes (les appelants vivnats ne sont pas authaurises). Ma methode preferee est le "tide shooting" : on creuse un trou, place des blettes et on attend d'etre encercle par la maree (un peu similaire a la chasse au cerceuil dans le nord de la France). La chasse de nuit est aussi possible, bref, beaucoup d'opportunites et comme la pression de chasse est moindre, il n'est pas rare de ne voire personne en baie. Bonne saison de chasse ! Xavier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windmig Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Merci pour ces explications. Je ne pensais pas que c'était aussi facile de trouver son bonheur de chasse en Angleterre. Quand tu dis que la chasse de nuit est autorisée, ça consiste en quoi par rapport à nos huttes ? Sinon, je me rends compte qu'il manque des espèces sur mon site qu'on ne chasse qu'au UK. Je pense notamment à l'oie à bec court et la Canada (même si cette dernière est autorisée depuis l'année dernière). Tu en vois et d'autres ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xav Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Et bien, en ce qui concerne la chasse de nuit, ce qu'on appelle "shooting the moon", elle s'effectue souvent en conjonction avec une maree montante. En gros, c;est le meme principe que de jour, on pose des blettes et on creuse un trou ou au moins on se dissimule derriere un filet. Autrement dit on doit faire face au intemperies et faire face aux temperatures et aaux vents peu clements comme tu l'imagines ici (pas de possibilte de fermer les guignettes et de boire un vin chaud comme a la hutte !) Aussi, on tire le gibier au vol. Au Royaume Uni, les limicoles (a part les becassines des marais et les pluviers dores) sont interdits depuis 1981. 9 canards sont au tableau: colverts, chipeaux, pilets, sarcelles, siffleurs, souchets, garrots, miloins et morillons. Pour les oies, (je ne suis pas sur des traductions): pink feet, grey geese, whitefront (en Angletree et Ecosse seulement) et canadas (considerees comme nuisible) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windmig Posted September 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2012 Merci pour ces infos Xavier. En espérant avoir le plaisir de retrouver qq obs de ta part sur WindMig. Au passage, j'en profite pour te dire qu'un premier membre UK vient de poster une observation d'Irlande du Nord : http://windmig.com/hunting,migration,otherducks,01-09-2012,2343,Lough-Foyle-RSPB-reserve.html A+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pole Star Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hello Michael this is all interesting but sadly most of us cant read French ! I would like to know if any wildfowl banded in France get to reach Orkney & Shetland & will look in to your site . Pole Star ps Its my own fault I cant speak french & to make it me even more guilty I had a French grand mother ! so I should have learned a long time ago ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windmig Posted September 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) Hi Pole Star, excuse us for this French parenthesis! It was difficult for me to resist asking some questions in French to Xavier about the type of hunting he is practicing in the North of England. We certainly could have done that in English ! At the end of our conversation, I was pointing him out that I had the pleasure to discover a first observation from Northern Ireland on WindMig. http://windmig.com/h...PB-reserve.html Now considering your question, at this period of the year, it is certainly impossible that birds banned in France fly up north to Orkney & Shetland as all birds are globally heading to the south. But it is certainly possible that at the end of winter, some leave Spain or France in order to come back to Orkney & Shetland. This could be the case for teals or wigeons for instance, maybe also for some geese species. As matter of fact, I don't even know if Orkney & Shetland is more a place where birds arrive in winter from Iceland or Norway or a place that birds leave in winter to fly to the South of England, France and Spain. It may also be both of them. This is one of the questions maybe WindMig could help us to answer... PS: I heard recently about the sad story of Betty Corrigall. If you walk in front of her grave, please give her a French greeting from me ! Edited September 5, 2012 by windmig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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