yickdaz Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 birds on rape round here now but only some places, still on stubbles mainly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booty68 Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Went a walk down my permission yesterday pigeon all over the place on drilled wheat and already on the rape unlike last year, shot birds have wheat ,hawthorn berries and rape in the crops (no acorns ) so should be better year not many acorns or beech about at all .i am in Staffordshire is this the same all over the country . Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filzee Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Loads of rape round my way but not seeing massive numbers on pigeons although one farmer recons he's lost an entire field to pigeons already. It would be nice if he told me while they were hammering it instead of moaning after it has happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karpman Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Wheat drillings doing the business round here. Nice steady day for 50 or so at the weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maidment78 Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 As we have had a poor year regarding farming, crops down on last year and the cover crop round here is pants, do you think there will be more hungry birds about and if so any thoughts as to the return of flocks like yester year? Birds here on Acorns and anything they can get to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted October 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Are you any the wiser after those diverse replies? Seeing what is going on just on your own permisions doesn't give a clear picture of what the birds are doing in general. The idea of this post was to get a much broader idea of the current situation. Does that answer your question? Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Seeing what is going on just on your own permisions doesn't give a clear picture of what the birds are doing in general. The idea of this post was to get a much broader idea of the current situation. Does that answer your question? Cos Yes it does thank you and I agree entirely with the aim of your post. Pigeons feeding habits vary even on adjacent estates and it is never easy to predict with any certainty what they might feed on from one day to the next. Your post gleaned a wide range of behaviour and choice of food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Seeing what is going on just on your own permisions doesn't give a clear picture of what the birds are doing in general. The idea of this post was to get a much broader idea of the current situation. Does that answer your question? Cos bit confused with this post cosd because we can only give info on what is happening on our own perms but obviously you can scout around while driving and see if you spot birds on any given field. if you look at the locations on peoples avatars that is enough info so what i have learned from it is they are feeding on rape in some areas,on stubbles and drillings in others and that will be country wide and around here they are feeding on all the said crops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiggy84arsenal Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 I went out saturday and we noticed birds all over the fresh maize stubble.. loads of them!!! but we have had a few birds showing on the rape aswell. Our hardest task is trying to keep them in comin into one place,, they play ball for a few hours then we need to move on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olddogfox Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 In Hereford on a estate I shoot on there are a lot of pigeons on barley stubble.shot 38 last week and 65 this week. I must have seen 400 plus birds about the area. It was very quite in the summer and the birds did not hit the peas so hoping they will hang around for the winter. There is very little wild food in the woods and hedge rows. So I think that the rape will be hit hard this year or the birds will move south down through Europe if the weather gets hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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