JDog Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 The fog did not lift until lunch time so it was difficult to pick a flight line. Certainly there were lots the previous afternoon going into three day old drillings. My first choice was simply wrong. The line was good but it was behind me over a belt of trees and none looked even remotely like decoying so I moved up the hill into another field. What a fag it is moving all of the kit.The new position was much better and I could see three lines, two inbound and one return line. None of the lines were very strong for the first hour in which I shot half a dozen. The next hour was frenetic and I shot thirty. This was shaping up to be a really good afternoon with birds coming in from three directions when a large blue tractor with a 16m boom turned into the field. This was to spray some noxious pre-emergent spray and when that sort of stuff is flying about I like to be elsewhere. To give the tractor driver his due he waited until I had packed up and left the field before he commenced spraying. I picked 42 pigeons. It could have been more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbw1shrops Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 Happened to me loads of times looks to be a promising day just start getting in the swing of things and a big green John Deere rocks up on the field 😡 so frustrating !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 46 is still a good effort , its a whole 40 more than I shot today and I had no tractor turn up ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted March 14, 2014 Report Share Posted March 14, 2014 The fog did not lift until lunch time so it was difficult to pick a flight line. Certainly there were lots the previous afternoon going into three day old drillings. My first choice was simply wrong. The line was good but it was behind me over a belt of trees and none looked even remotely like decoying so I moved up the hill into another field. What a fag it is moving all of the kit.The new position was much better and I could see three lines, two inbound and one return line. None of the lines were very strong for the first hour in which I shot half a dozen. The next hour was frenetic and I shot thirty. This was shaping up to be a really good afternoon with birds coming in from three directions when a large blue tractor with a 16m boom turned into the field. This was to spray some noxious pre-emergent spray and when that sort of stuff is flying about I like to be elsewhere. To give the tractor driver his due he waited until I had packed up and left the field before he commenced spraying. I picked 42 pigeons. It could have been more. Couldn't you have waited until the spraying had been done and recommenced? Surely it would have been over and done with fairly quickly. It is annoying, though, it happened to me last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 We had the same on Friday , but the crops come first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Happened to me loads of times looks to be a promising day just start getting in the swing of things and a big green John Deere rocks up on the field so frustrating !!! Nice going...plenty of birds around but sticking together and leaving together!! + 1 on moving now that is a royal pain.... TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 Motty, two points in answer to your query. Firstly I believe that once pigeons have been disturbed from a field of drillings they soon find elsewhere to go. There were five fields close by for them to drop in. Secondly the spray must affect the taste of the grain and they may not want it as much. As you know I am no expert in the matter of decoying pigeons and I may be wrong. There are also much better theorists on the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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