norfolk birds

[diddy]

left work in Yarmouth yesterday driving to Norwich and hardly seen any birds at all there were a few attacking some barley that I seen but certainly nothing to get excited about is it normally this quiet? my perms are the same tbh even though most are rape fields.

[motty]

It is quite possible that you can drive long stretches of road and see very few pigeons. I could drive close to a few farms I shoot on and see nothing. It's only on closer inspection that you find where all the birds are.

[JDog]

In two hours during which time I drove from Gloucestershire to Humberside on Saturday and I only saw a handful of birds in a hundred miles. When I turned off the M1 onto the M18 there were several hundred on a laid barley field.

 

Whilst driving at speed it is impossible to spot the ones sitting up in trees digesting food.

[marsh man]

In two hours during which time I drove from Gloucestershire to Humberside on Saturday and I only saw a handful of birds in a hundred miles. When I turned off the M1 onto the M18 there were several hundred on a laid barley field.

 

Whilst driving at speed it is impossible to spot the ones sitting up in trees digesting food.

I travel a lot around the Norfolk countryside on the bus for a day out and passing fields of laid barley and peas that are getting close to being cut you have got time to look at the top of dead trees and telegraph wires , and although we haven't got huge amounts I am now seeing more each day as more fields are becoming a free meal for pigeons, you will always get a field that pigeons prefer to other fields with the same crop on it , and even if you have got peas , barley ect , it doesn't always mean they will attract a lot of birds as we haven't got enough to go on every field, but if you know where and when to look you can normally find a few somewhere.