i hate pigeons

[GingerCat]

I went to my friends farm today, he told me there were hundreds of pigeons eating his cauliflowers.

I watched the flight lines, chose a spot, made the hide and put the decoys out for the pigeons to decide they would rather sit on telephone wires over ploughed bare fields.

Checked the hide and decoys, put the rotary out but no difference.

Didn't have permission to shoot these fields but they were cabbage and are now totally bare with not even chickweed in them.

Was a lovely day and missed a couple that came close so decided to move to some trees and see what would fly by.

Not much.

However the whole day was made worthwhile by a lone wood pigeon flying over the farm about 45 yard up that folded cleanly and landed about 30 yards from me. Just had it on toast with some salad.

Beautiful day and quite warm but I just wish I could understand how these bloody things think.

Anyone else had pigeons on bare fields recently and ignoring other crops.....

 

[whitey10765666]

Yes me last Thursday,, the blighters preferred a grass field ?, drove me crazy, strange critters theses blooming pigeons lol.

[cooooper1]

farmers put his cows in the kale fields a couple of days back and all the pigeons are in the opposite field on grass,did`nt even bother setting up(on my own)to much hard work for little to no reward.

rape fields 1 shoot and gone,so going tomorrow on the crows for a change,pigeons starting to pair up.

[GingerCat]

There wasn't a blade of grass in sight. They were in big flocks though.