Glenlivet Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 (edited) Don't know what all this talk of a good summer is about. Up here north in the Cheshire semi tundra it's spent the last 4 months trying to snow! Just readying the four track with neat alcohol coolant and de-icing the polar bear traps.... Edited October 7, 2016 by Glenlivet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 I'm hoping for mostly hard frosts and bitter cold, and NO rain! There are people down town who still aren't back in their homes yet after the floods last December! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted October 8, 2016 Report Share Posted October 8, 2016 I got some sound advice from the mrs ignore the weather pillocks open a window Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycho Posted October 8, 2016 Report Share Posted October 8, 2016 I predict that it will be a harsh winter,with drifting snow and thick ice a winter that most have never experienced. ..why...the onion skins were thin and the squirrels are gathering early but the proper tell tale was fog on the 5th of October that is a bad sign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted October 8, 2016 Report Share Posted October 8, 2016 Down south we bask in warm sunshine and dryness, and long may it continue. I do a rain and snow dance like the red Indians going round in circles,chanting like a lunatic to send all of the nasty stuff up north over Scotland and their leader. ( Haven't heard anything from her lately). Loads of countries have good shooting without snow,frost rain and other miserable weather to contend with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 They already have, it was all over Facebook a week or so ago, according to my GF. She read it to me, saying that it was going to be a bad winter. I asked if was from the 'Express' to which she said 'yes', 'Don't worry, they print that every year, in the hope they will get it right some time'. The long range forecast looks... well just normal. Although they agree they have no real idea! Won't be long till the express prints "ice age coming" same old tosh every year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feltwad Posted October 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Saw my first migration of Fieldfares this morning all coming of the east coast , the flight lasted just over one hour with many hundreds of birds passing over. Some say that they are just in front of bad weather or is it just another folklore? Feltwad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Well ...given I live in Wales I predict rain...why...it always rains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TONY R Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Saw my first migration of Fieldfares this morning all coming of the east coast , the flight lasted just over one hour with many hundreds of birds passing over. Some say that they are just in front of bad weather or is it just another folklore? Feltwad Glad you mentioned this i saw two this morning. Comented to my mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_ox Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Well the met office know what's going to happen apparently, could even be 62% successful! Now the Met Office can predict a big freeze a YEAR ahead http://dailym.ai/2ezs5P6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 Welsh weather is easy to predict. If you can't see the hills it's raining and if you can see the hills it's going to rain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feltwad Posted November 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2016 Enclosed is a image of the first fall of snow on the 6th November , maybe the autumn crop of berries was a sign of bad weather to follow and also some truth in folklore Feltwad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adge Cutler Posted November 7, 2016 Report Share Posted November 7, 2016 I don't think that nature can predict the weather anymore than we can. I think they react to it and make the most of it. Migrant Birds arriving later than usual normally are making the most of good weather in their breeding grounds, very similar to the way Swallows and Martins do here when its a warm Autumn. Field fares and redwings are Thrushes and prefer to feed in the fields on insects and worms. When the fields get cold and the earthworms retreat they move their attention to the hedgerow berries so if the weather is mild they will leave the berries on the hedgerows until it gets cold. Over the years folklore has suggested that they know its going to be a hard winter so they leave the berries but this just isn't so. Another fable centres around rooks..build high in the trees and its going to be a mild spring build lower and it will be wet and windy. Generally its just the young and inexperienced birds that build in the tops of the canopy because that's the only space that is left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 I'm also in the camp of not putting any store in the old wives tales. Over the years I've observed most of them, with the berries being prevalent, but it just doesn't ring true. I think it boils down to something much more along the line of us wanting to find a pattern or meaning or belief in something but unfortunately I honestly don't think it can be any more accurate than it will/will not be a hard winter (delete as appropriate). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old melv Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 Snow falling in cannock 8th November could this be a sign of a hard winter. Only a handful of flakes though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redgum Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 Snow falling in cannock 8th November could this be a sign of a hard winter. Only a handful of flakes though Bit of an old wives tale I know but snow fall could be a sign of a hard winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 hello, i am going Latvia soon and they have a foot of snow in Riga, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nmb Posted November 8, 2016 Report Share Posted November 8, 2016 I was beating in snow on Saturday. Wet rubbish that melted but makes the day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgewizard Posted November 20, 2016 Report Share Posted November 20, 2016 You cannot beat a days shooting in the snow. Looking forward to it PLUS you can see those foxes after dark without a lamp on a good moon You cant love feretting in the snow you no the burrows that are used and normaly have a good day plus a dig or two keeps you warm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uilleachan Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 At sea level where I am it's already been a harder winter than the last couple. It's been below zero for the last three days in my village and the hills are white from above about 400 meters. I did have some goose shooting to do for a friend but this cold snap has frozen the ground in the problem fields, so the geese are elsewhere, at the moment. It was even colder up there than it is where I am yesterday afternoon, being -3ºC at 3.30, so likely much colder first thing this morning. Things may mild off later in the week but it'll need to warm some to thaw the ground. Quite a few big flocks of redwing and fieldfare about the place at the moment, they had the berries scoffed in most locations by the start of November. Plenty waxwings over on the east coast too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Well the met office know what's going to happen apparently, could even be 62% successful! Now the Met Office can predict a big freeze a YEAR ahead http://dailym.ai/2ezs5P6 My *** they can, even the daily forecasts here are wrong sometimes? The weather can vary within one 2 mile zone here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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