JDog Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 A little scene setting first. My favourite farm to shoot over with the best and most consistent flight line I have known, the only one coming out of an urban setting. There is a very nice escarpment leading up to the higher ground a photograph of which appeared in one of my posts a couple of weeks back. On the higher ground, more than half a mile in the distance is an old wheat stubble. In descending order there is then a barley stubble now drilled with rape, a long field of ex rape now drilled with wheat, another rape stubble already turned over, a small pasture field, then the bottom field which is bean stubble (harvested this week). I watched the bean stubble yesterday at about four o' clock. There were 50 or so birds on it and lots and lots in the air, in fact a constant line. However the birds on the line over flew the activity in the bean field, up a line of trees and in reverse order over all of the fields previously mentioned and into the old wheat stubble some distance away. I know this because I followed them in the car and when I got to the wheat stubble they were arriving in their droves and there were two hundred already there feeding. As per the title, why would they over fly a bean stubble with pigeons already on it? The reward for a few minutes in the bean field would be a crop full of protein which they would struggle to pick up in the wheat stubble in an hour. Maybe when I have had a few more days out pigeon shooting I will work them out. Unlikely I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 I have noticed that pigeons do like the very first shoots of the "volunteer" wheat and there is also chickweed they can now have access to. It could be that reason, or just the fact the Mars was in line with Jupiter, with Venus rising, or something very similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 I have noticed that pigeons do like the very first shoots of the "volunteer" wheat and there is also chickweed they can now have access to. It could be that reason, or just the fact the Mars was in line with Jupiter, with Venus rising, or something very similar. What about URANUS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 What about URANUS? Far too many of those on here..... TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbw1shrops Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Maybe it could be that beans are harder for them to digest than a smaller seed would be ? Who knows ? These pigeon always keep you guessing ! Lol I've got a bean field that's recently been harvested but they've still left a strip of it standing there's been a few birds on there but not enough to warrant setting up think there's just too much on offer for them at present Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 On stubble there are loads of wee fresh weeds and seeds that are getting a chance to sproot with the crops cut and the cushies love a change.Funny how they can chop and change and with still plenty of daylight they don't need to fill their crop ASAP so its probably a change from the norm lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrelhall Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Maybe they are waiting for a good rain to soften them to aid digestion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 Maybe they are waiting for a good rain to soften them to aid digestion I tasted some beans today and they were very hard with no pigeons on the field, another field had soft beans with birds on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted September 27, 2013 Report Share Posted September 27, 2013 What about URANUS? what about yours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted September 28, 2013 Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Maybe they are waiting for a good rain to soften them to aid digestion I don't think pigeons are fussy about hard beans. They seem to lap them up when they have just been drilled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody swacker Posted September 29, 2013 Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 They have trouble whacking them acorns down either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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