AberFowl Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Just back from evening flight, only saw a couple hundred pinks. Usually see a good few thousand! If anybody sees them please send them back! I rarely bag many but a flight on the foreshore isn't the same without hearing that magical sound! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Hopefully they have come down this way, i'd like to see one or two when i am out in the morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 A few of them are in my freezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberFowl Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 I am wondering if we should be expecting some change in the weather or something similar. I haven't known the geese dessert the area like this before. Usually have a good 10k throughout the winter roosting between the estuary and loch a few miles up from it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 I am wondering if we should be expecting some change in the weather or something similar. I haven't known the geese dessert the area like this before. Usually have a good 10k throughout the winter roosting between the estuary and loch a few miles up from it There is a full moon tonight , your geese have perhaps stayed out feeding under it rather than heading back to roost , that would explain why you have not seen many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakin stevens Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 I'm up north this week around nigg bay, with the wind speed and the moon they would rather hunker down under the crest of a big field than sit the shore out, more chance bagging duck on the afternoon tides with a 60mph Westerly wind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberFowl Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Yes with the moon many will of stayed out feeding but I haven't seen any good numbers over the last few days anywhere in the area. Its unusal to not see skeins of geese about all around the area I work. We usually have a skein over at least every half hour but the lad few days there hasn't been half that! I'm up north this week around nigg bay, with the wind speed and the moon they would rather hunker down under the crest of a big field than sit the shore out, more chance bagging duck on the afternoon tides with a 60mph Westerly wind.Not a breath of wind to speak of here this evening, did bag a brace of tall mallard though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakin stevens Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 blasting down here from the west, even worse later on in the week, been here before to much wind, and the geese take a few days to return to the shore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberFowl Posted December 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 Very rare to not have geese on the estuary I shoot as its well sheltered, they forget the loch and hit the estuary when the wind really gets up. Was hoping there would be a good wind but unfortunately not today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted December 6, 2014 Report Share Posted December 6, 2014 At the moment we are the other way round as there are more Geese than ducks using the marshes , yesterday I had one of the members on hear with me and I showed him four fields together that were covered in Pinks , we didn't count them but I would have thought well into four figures . We went on my marshes for duck and saw next to nothing , I did manage to shoot a Widgeon but that was it , yet during the week I went twice at night where the Geese had been feeding and shot one each night as they were going off , and today they have put gas guns and flags on so maybe you might get them back . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildfowler325 Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Goose guides up in aberdeenshire shooting stupid amounds of geese each morning early on in the season have pushed the geese further down south! I know a few of them and they were shooting 50+ a morning the week the pinks started arriving. I feel this has pushed the, down as they havent had time to settle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Goose guides up in aberdeenshire shooting stupid amounds of geese each morning early on in the season have pushed the geese further down south! I know a few of them and they were shooting 50+ a morning the week the pinks started arriving. I feel this has pushed the, down as they havent had time to settle. What will anyone do with 50+ geese? Supposing it was a party of eight its at least 6 geese per Gun. No doubt someone will correct me but putting the old memory back a decade or four, was it not once considered bad practice to :- (a) Use decoys on inland feeding grounds for geese. ( b ) Shoot geese on their roosting grounds. Blackpowder Edited December 7, 2014 by Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Well i didn't find them on the wash! All abit quiet down this way this morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) What will anyone do with 50+ geese? Supposing it was a party of eight its at least 6 geese per Gun. No doubt someone will correct me but putting the old memory back a decade or four, was it not once considered bad practice to :- (a) Use decoys on inland feeding grounds for geese. ( b ) Shoot geese on their roosting grounds. Blackpowder I think (a) is common practice and the other is bad practice and frowned upon and 50 birds is wrong in my opinion Edited December 7, 2014 by islandgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Well i didn't find them on the wash! All abit quiet down this way this morning Which marsh did yo shoot ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Which marsh did yo shoot ? Closest one that i could! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I think (a) is common practice and the other is bad practice and frowned upon and 50 birds is wrong in my opinion Mind you I am harking back to the early 60s here, that's the trouble with being ancient. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I think (a) is common practice and the other is bad practice and frowned upon and 50 birds is wrong in my opinion If that is 50 between eight I do not feel that it is way over the top , i would guess a lot that are out with guides only shoot geese for that particular week a year so in reality will shoot less than a local who is out a few times a week throughout the season . In a ideal world there would be a bag limit but who would police it , I think most true fowlers have their own sometimes in addition to the rules of the club they may be in . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 If that is 50 between eight I do not feel that it is way over the top , i would guess a lot that are out with guides only shoot geese for that particular week a year so in reality will shoot less than a local who is out a few times a week throughout the season . In a ideal world there would be a bag limit but who would police it , I think most true fowlers have their own sometimes in addition to the rules of the club they may be in . good point, who can deny someone the right to shoot more as a one off, I would feel uncomfortable with it personally, perhaps the guides could show more restraint, with an emphasis on field craft etc, I have never been with a guide so am probably talking out my a........e. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 good point, who can deny someone the right to shoot more as a one off, I would feel uncomfortable with it personally, perhaps the guides could show more restraint, with an emphasis on field craft etc, I have never been with a guide so am probably talking out my a........e. My opinion is that the guides should be licenced and they should have bag limit included in the contract they take out with the client . Some i know have limits but as every tom , **** or harry can call themselves a goose guide if they so wish them there will always be those to whom the cash is more important than the ethics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big bad lindz Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I'm up north this week around nigg bay, with the wind speed and the moon they would rather hunker down under the crest of a big field than sit the shore out, more chance bagging duck on the afternoon tides with a 60mph Westerly wind. Leave some for me for when I get back home, are you going up the the Firth this time up ? I havent seen to many in the past week around Dornoch / Golspie areas but there was still plenty toward Beauly and near Dingwall. I am offshore now so I cant give you an update although my mate (in the wheel chair) has had some sucess with decoying in nearby fields. BBL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBoar Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Everyones around here is saying heavy snow is coming this week, Can Geese predict this, and bugg out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakin stevens Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 (edited) Leave some for me for when I get back home, are you going up the the Firth this time up ? I havent seen to many in the past week around Dornoch / Golspie areas but there was still plenty toward Beauly and near Dingwall. I am offshore now so I cant give you an update although my mate (in the wheel chair) has had some sucess with decoying in nearby fields. did me recon last night Lindsay, plenty still around , not been up your way to Dornoch might go for the duck when the winds hit. Edited December 7, 2014 by shakin stevens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakin stevens Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 Everyones around here is saying heavy snow is coming this week, Can Geese predict this, and bugg out? I would say so, seen the lot clear out in that heavy snow 4 years ago, went from thousands lifting from the shore in a blizzard to a handful in the next morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted December 7, 2014 Report Share Posted December 7, 2014 I would say so, seen the lot clear out in that heavy snow 4 years ago, went from thousands lifting from the shore in a blizzard to a handful in the next morning. That may well be the case, but I think that geese can clear an area for any number of reasons. I have known many occasions when there have been thousands on the roost, only for the moon or a day of fog perhaps, cause the geese to move away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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