Pigeon numbers

[pin]

So?

[Popgun]

So?

 

Still loads about to much food hard to get at

[brooke]

180 in five trips for me,loads of birds around but sometimes they just pass us as if were not there.

this must be because they have found a better feeding ground somewhere,but the numbers still look good and we have all the young birds to come yet.

[Catamong]

I've just commented on this one under the "Pinewood thread"

 

Cat.

[EvoCars]

loads about round here, but not flocking or decoying to well, getting most from having my hide under flightlines

[Mungler]

Plenty of food choice for them - seeing lots of one or twos pleasing themselves.

 

Reduced numbers? Will let you know at the end of summer - couple of fields and flight lines that are the acid test for me.

[Sundodger]

Not so many in the feilds but loads in the woods, I think they have other things on there minds if you now what I mean?

[The Wileman's]

loads about round here, but not flocking or decoying to well, getting most from having my hide under flightlines

 

Exactly the same here! See them occasionally in a good numbers but nothing to get me hope up about.

Flightlines are definatley the way to go atm

[the hitman]

Pigeon feeding patterns have changed alot in the last 20yrs. I think pigeons numbers were in decline , and the introduction of OSR has given them food in winter , and spread the population ,making huge bags few and far between. Pigeons are not as gullible to pastic decoys as their ancestors, mild winters , all year breeding, all work in their favour. I think there are more pigeons now than 20yrs ago , but less than say 40yrs ago.

[Peter_HMR]

Pigeons = pest thats why people shoot them to control the numbers if your seeing a decline in numbers then your doing your job right.

 

If it gets to the stange the numbers are getting low then it will turn into conservation instead of rest control and people will simple have to start rearing and releasing if they want to continue to shoot them.

[the hitman]

Yes pigeons are pests , and are there to be shot , but i cant imagine anyone rearing them like gamebirds to be released in huge numbers into the wild.

[Highlander]

I think we get these threads every year at certain times when (some) people on here can't find birds and what happens...just as the 'no birds' debate hots up everyones reporting bigger bags! All nature is cyclic.

[motty]

I think we get these threads every year at certain times when (some) people on here can't find birds and what happens...just as the 'no birds' debate hots up everyones reporting bigger bags! All nature is cyclic.

 

I quite agree. There are certainly plenty of pigeons around in my area.Took my fifth hundred+ bag of the year so far today. Not sure if i've seen this many birds in previous years, so in my opinion i would say they are on the increase. I'm sure in a month or two, people will start posting that birds are about in big numbers and bag numbers increasing.