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500 pigeons on rape stubble.


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Not 500 shot but 500 on the field when I got there. The more cynical amongst PW members would have spotted that straight away.

 

This is a field I know well and is one of those fields where the pigeons either come back in droves along a well used flight line or they drift off elsewhere. Today it was the latter even though after I had initially pushed them off and discovered that they were reluctant to leave the field and returned in the normal way along the normal route. However when I set up they disappeared en masse and only a very few returned.

 

I could see the writing was on the wall after 30 minutes but I stuck it out for an hour and picked 18 pigeons. The interesting part of the afternoon was the young fallow deer mentioned in another post.

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the number of times that has happened to all of us !!...........and yet we all have been in the position of setting up on a field that is rotten with birds and whatever you do and however many shots you have they will not leave.....lord knows what makes them do that.........

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All of our rape stubbles have germinated now and pigeons are no longer using them , today I got nearly 40 on old wheat stubble that have been pulled about to get it ready for this years rape , well over half were young ones some very young. I think the old ones were weary with the decoys rather than a huge amount of youngsters about and a lot of the young ones haven't seen decoys or a magnet before.

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  On 16/08/2014 at 18:48, marsh man said:

All of our rape stubbles have germinated now and pigeons are no longer using them , today I got nearly 40 on old wheat stubble that have been pulled about to get it ready for this years rape , well over half were young ones some very young. I think the old ones were weary with the decoys rather than a huge amount of youngsters about and a lot of the young ones haven't seen decoys or a magnet before.

 

 

 

 

strange that.........we are the other way around here....i see more birds on the stubbles once they have germinated........

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  On 16/08/2014 at 17:00, JDog said:

Not 500 shot but 500 on the field when I got there. The more cynical amongst PW members would have spotted that straight away.

 

This is a field I know well and is one of those fields where the pigeons either come back in droves along a well used flight line or they drift off elsewhere. Today it was the latter even though after I had initially pushed them off and discovered that they were reluctant to leave the field and returned in the normal way along the normal route. However when I set up they disappeared en masse and only a very few returned.

 

I could see the writing was on the wall after 30 minutes but I stuck it out for an hour and picked 18 pigeons. The interesting part of the afternoon was the young fallow deer mentioned in another post.

i would have been pleased with 18!!!

 

at least its not just me that this happens too. (birds not returning to where I am )

 

im sure normal service will be resumed for you on your next outing JDog

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The rape was cut around 3 weeks ago and while there was seed to be found pigeons were using it in fairly good numbers , me and Lakeside1000 would have had a decent day if the tractors hadn't came on a hour after we had set up, now on a dry day they are combining the remaining wheat fields so the laid areas of wheat where they had been using are now stubble and they seem keener on the wheat than they do on the old rape field.

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