Flight lines.

[JDog]

Here is a question for those acute observers of flight lines amongst the PW massive.

 

Do those decoyers who shoot in the prarie lands of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and the Fens et al find it easier to spot flight lines and follow them to the feeding field than those of us who shoot in wooded areas?

 

I ask this because yesterday there were two flight lines hidden from me due to woodlands and thick belts of trees and no matter what I could have done I could never have seen those lines. Whereas in 'big sky' country it must be easy to spot birds flighting from roost out to feed or more generally spot birds in the distance and observe where they go.

[ditchman]

Firstly......norfolk and suffolk are not flat or prarie land...both are very heavilt wooded........the flat lands you elude to are generally lincolnshire cambs and the lincolshire norfolk border

 

 

In the wooded areas of norfolk there are many established flightlines ..and suffolk also....the pic is a veiw over the wensum (river) valley....

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Here is a question for those acute observers of flight lines amongst the PW massive.

 

Do those decoyers who shoot in the prarie lands of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and the Fens et al find it easier to spot flight lines and follow them to the feeding field than those of us who shoot in wooded areas?

 

I ask this because yesterday there were two flight lines hidden from me due to woodlands and thick belts of trees and no matter what I could have done I could never have seen those lines. Whereas in 'big sky' country it must be easy to spot birds flighting from roost out to feed or more generally spot birds in the distance and observe where they go.

 

 

Perhaps you need to take your hat off!

[fenboy]

I posted something about flight lines in my part of the fens a week or two ago.

 

It is rare to find a flight line as such , I just do not have the large woods to hold big numbers of birds that will fly out to feed on one particular line.

 

What we do have is lots of small copses , belts of trees and small woods etc.

 

This means that birds in general can come to a field from anywhere , I have yet to read on here of a good bag of pigeon shot flighting from this area.

[JDog]

Please excuse my abject ignorance ditchman.

[ditchman]

Please excuse my abject ignorance ditchman.

 

 

 

you have been granted a visa to enter the county...please feel free to do so at your leisure..........dont bring you gun as there aint no birds here....rekon motty has them all up at kings lynn.........the pic was taken on the peas last year...then i was shooting 25-50 odd 3 times a week....then it all dried up in august...still hasnt changed...so im hoping for a good pre-harvest go at them

 

here's hoping

[pigeon controller]

I'm not sure of the county borders but I use fish the river Delph at Welney on the post office stretch and it had a few flight lines crossing it and very few trees other than the willows on the river edge. An ex. Brummie friend moved to March and planted leylandi around a small half acre plot ten years ago and now has a wood pigeon roost which he shoots with his air rifle for the pot.

 

Back in the " Forest of Arden" we have flight lines that follow the old tree line on some fields and it has been said before that they follow the "Lay Lines" . I think the main thing is if you've got them and they lead to you shooting a good bag that's all you need to know.

[marsh man]

When I had a shoot near Burgh St Peter on the marshes , we were in a unusual situation where at times we had three good flight lines from Somerleyton, Barnaby, and Alderby which was like a triangle and when the right crop was in and we had a bale hide in the middle of the field you could see the pigeons coming from three directions all at the same time and if your eyes were good enough you could pick em out about a mile away knowing that when they got to your field they had no trees to go to as there wernt any, so hopefully and being in the right place they would then come straight in to your decoys , but the marsh land I shoot on now is nearer to the coast and very similar to Fenboys situation where there are several small wooded areas such as marsh carrs , grave yards and parks in the town so although you get a nice lot down there at times they can come from any direction rather than a main flight line.

[yickdaz]

I posted something about flight lines in my part of the fens a week or two ago.

 

It is rare to find a flight line as such , I just do not have the large woods to hold big numbers of birds that will fly out to feed on one particular line.

 

What we do have is lots of small copses , belts of trees and small woods etc.

 

This means that birds in general can come to a field from anywhere , I have yet to read on here of a good bag of pigeon shot flighting from this area.

I think most of arable land has the same features, ours is about the same to me its about the pigeon numbers in the area and if there using a flightline or flightlines

Edited May 11, 2014 by yickdaz

[Whitetail]

I started decoying in the fens over thirty years ago and the pigeons now are still using the same lines of flight as they did back then. They roost in the same areas and when the crops in a certain fen are right use the old flight lines to get there.