AberFowl Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 (edited) The magical sound of the pinks has returned to my area. I sit in the garden in the pitch dark as I write this listening to pinks circle above the village, I always forget how amazing the effect the music of the pinks has on me! The time to blow the dust off the 10 bore and the waders is here....My wildfowling season will start soon! Good luck to all those who shoot the foreshore this season! Edited September 15, 2014 by AberFowl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Sounds magical, good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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birdsallpl Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 To me it is the most marvelous sound originating from nature that I have ever experienced. I haven't heard them yet this year but hopefully not long to wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatsanmad Posted September 15, 2014 Report Share Posted September 15, 2014 Was out working on my flight pond and rides hedgerows ect and saw 4skiens origanally. Then while waiting for some ducks i heard the sound of a few hundred pinks in the distance lifting. Then they appeared and there must have been at least two three thousand pinks cant wait to get a flight on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon 3 Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Never had the chance to experience it, but very kindly have been invited on a trip to the Solway late October - so hopefully will get to see and hear them then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdsallpl Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Never had the chance to experience it, but very kindly have been invited on a trip to the Solway late October - so hopefully will get to see and hear them then. I hope you do silver pigeon 3. To hear Pinks coming off roost at the morning flight is a real David Attenborough moment. If there are a big lot flying it is truly magnificent. I have seen 36,000 lifting over about 20 minutes some years ago and I was just dumbfounded at the spectacle. (Never got a shot though) ATB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon 3 Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 I hope you do silver pigeon 3. To hear Pinks coming off roost at the morning flight is a real David Attenborough moment. If there are a big lot flying it is truly magnificent. I have seen 36,000 lifting over about 20 minutes some years ago and I was just dumbfounded at the spectacle. (Never got a shot though) ATB Fingers crossed, getting a shot is a secondary thought. Just want to see and hear them at close quarters, Any geese calling close still brings on the excitement for me so really looking forward to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 Totally agree, sometimes it hard to remember what you came there to do. To be fair its the same for me with all our geese even those we don't shoot do something inside me but yes pinks are a bit special Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APG98RUfyUE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OYNEs5oEcY Edited September 16, 2014 by Penelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 As I said in a previous post at least one or two of my best ever flights at pinks ended with out firing a shot , but to be under 1000s of Geese all calling out to there mates who have already started to settle in for the night is a sight and sound you can never have enough of , many a time I have came home with a empty bag and a clean gun but the entertainment I have had have been priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlennox Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 I love the fact that the shot is secondary in wildfowling, it's what drew me away from driven shoots and onto the foreshore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 As I said in a previous post at least one or two of my best ever flights at pinks ended with out firing a shot , but to be under 1000s of Geese all calling out to there mates who have already started to settle in for the night is a sight and sound you can never have enough of , many a time I have came home with a empty bag and a clean gun but the entertainment I have had have been priceless. Yes memories, been a good few year since I've been wildfowling, so I clicked on Utube just to remind me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberFowl Posted September 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2014 Working away on site this morning I thought I was hearing things but after a quick scan of the skys sure enough there was a nice skein of 200 or more pinks heading to feed Working just a few miles from my favourite fowling estuary...hoping they are using it as their ew home as I will be there after work to see if anythings moving. First flight of the season for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nic Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 cant wait.... going up to the Tay early Nov and will hear it again then,,,,,, it always stirs the blood and is like a magical moment each and every time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Never seen pinks to be honest but the sight or sound of geese really gets my heart pumping I'm not sure why to be honest but just hearing a distance call is just exciting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatsanmad Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 Im out to have my first flight at them in the morning. Not to fussed if i shoot any or even raise the gun on any its more to just watch them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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