TriBsa Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I was reading the WAGBI page of an old Shooting Times (1973) and it listed five deadly sins on the marsh. First was arriving late. Second was leaving early. Third was overcrowding, setting up too near another fowler. Fourth was fidgeting during a flight. Fifth was greed listing long range shooting, browning flocks, sand crawling to roosting birds and lastly chivvying. What please is chivvying? Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Never heard it in relation to fowling but chivvying some thing/one along is just hurrying them up. Very common expression in former days. Flushing birds??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I was reading the WAGBI page of an old Shooting Times (1973) and it listed five deadly sins on the marsh. First was arriving late. Second was leaving early. Third was overcrowding, setting up too near another fowler. Fourth was fidgeting during a flight. Fifth was greed listing long range shooting, browning flocks, sand crawling to roosting birds and lastly chivvying. What please is chivvying? Tom Just asked a guy who has been wild fowling for 45 years and his answer was it is term for "pestering" he has never heard it used in wildfowling. Maybe it was used in the context of not letting the birds alone ( keep shooting at them on the same bit of marsh) Just a thought TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Sounds about right, flushing or pushing birds off. Never heard it in relation to fowling but chivvying some thing/one along is just hurrying them up. Very common expression in former days. Flushing birds??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted November 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Thanks gents, I was familiar with the term as in "chivvying along" but couldn't see how it fitted in a wildfowling context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scruffydog Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I could be wrong, but I think it describes the act of shooting close to a sitting/swimming duck in order to "encourage" it to take flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Sounds about right, flushing or pushing birds off. I could be wrong, but I think it describes the act of shooting close to a sitting/swimming duck in order to "encourage" it to take flight. I chap I just asked, shot with Gordon Hooper and mentioned in his latter years spotted him waving his white hankie if the birds were not in range for him....this also meant no one else got a shot at them...........!!! So we are getting close... TEH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdsallpl Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 I'm pretty sure as already alluded to it means pushing them off their roost, hurrying them up to flight. This occasionally happens still when some one decides to walk out too far in hope of getting closer. The birds see them and they all take off in alarm completly ruining the flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevo Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Just asked my dad who was a member of WAGBI for years . He said its an old term for flushing or pushing the birds out of cover . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 Just asked my dad who was a member of WAGBI for years . He said its an old term for flushing or pushing the birds out of cover . that sounds like beating in the game bird context Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevo Posted November 4, 2014 Report Share Posted November 4, 2014 (edited) No it just means moving or pushing the birds . Nothing to do with beating in the game context . Google it . its quite well used term / practise used mainly by bird watchers and alike , Edited November 4, 2014 by stevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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