JDog Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 No not that sort of vertigo as I am still as agile as a gibbon when I am either up a ladder or climbing a tree despite being in my mid sixties. This vertigo is much more exciting - spring beans. They are being drilled as i write on one of my farms. Spring wheat is going in on another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Lol :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) Funcky gibbon no doubt.. oh...oh....oh do da funcky gibbon..... Edited March 17, 2016 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 If they are sowing them as in the second picture you should be in for a bonanza ! Good luck on the drillings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 We await the report with baited breath, and a perfectly composed picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 proberly be a damp squid........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokersmith Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Beanz meanz pigeons But as Ditchman suggests, a well drilled field can often disappoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 Look more like 'hasbeans' to me ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 shooting beans has a very limited life.............2 days at the most...then they wont touch them...first day is usually day after drilling.....then maybe one more day soon after that thats what we expect around here........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I shot a bag of 80+ once on freshly drilled beans. The pigeons decoyed superbly, yet i could not find a single bean on the surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 17, 2016 Report Share Posted March 17, 2016 I shot a bag of 80+ once on freshly drilled beans. The pigeons decoyed superbly, yet i could not find a single bean on the surface. that is exactly what happened here 3 years ago..........drilled field pigeons floating in late afternoon....next day the birds were all over it..two guys shot all day......then that was it ...birds never seen again...not even when the beans started to sprout........nothing ...they never touched it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Update. I have walked the two fields drilled with beans yesterday and apart from the spillage when loading the drill there is not a bean in sight. As our resident expert Motty will tell you that doesn't mean no shooting but prospects don't look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 (edited) dont give up yet............they will proberly turn up for one day only...maybe 2-3 days...they will peck away and you can shoot away and that will be it ...they will find somewhere the next day to feed ......so keep your eye out as king harold said to his general overlooking the battle of hastings "keep an eye out for that pillock with one arrow" Edited March 18, 2016 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Birds are most likely sitting up in the trees whittling little wooden spades as we speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 Most of our drillings are put in nowadays with a air drill , leaving very little ( if any ) seed on the suffice , Today I looked at a few freshly drilled fields with very few pigeons to be seen , the only field that looked as if I might get a few tomorrow was on a old spud field and I think the pigeons that were on it were more interested in any old bits of spuds that were brought to the top than the odd bit of grain that was left behind the drill . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted March 18, 2016 Report Share Posted March 18, 2016 I have had a look at 5 pea fields that have not long been drilled today and likewise there is nothing there for them , so it will be a waiting game now ,I just hope the wait is not as long as last year when they were very slow getting on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 Further update. Yesterday afternoon I returned to the bean field. In the very next field a farmer I know well was putting out a kite, a gas banger and a rope banger to keep pigeons off his rape. This rape field is unshootable due to a road and the proximity of two houses as well as a pony paddock with two ponies in it. All this excitement for nothing it would seem. Oh yes and it's raining as I write this from my warm bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted March 19, 2016 Report Share Posted March 19, 2016 perhaps we ought to invent some sort of camera like a cross between a trail cam and a mobile phone with the ability to broadcast pics every 2 mins over ...say 5 miles...then we could stick these cameras watching the fields...and the pics would be beamed back to the comfort of our homes and we will be ready in and instant when the birds start to land and we would venture out to the right place everytime................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted March 20, 2016 Report Share Posted March 20, 2016 perhaps we ought to invent some sort of camera like a cross between a trail cam and a mobile phone with the ability to broadcast pics every 2 mins over ...say 5 miles...then we could stick these cameras watching the fields...and the pics would be beamed back to the comfort of our homes and we will be ready in and instant when the birds start to land and we would venture out to the right place everytime................. Dreamer! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want the first one you make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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