another mixed bag

[yickdaz]

shot a field of standing barley today farmer said he would be cutting it on sun, got to the field at 11.30am they are flighting earlier now and switching off earlier, there had been good numbers around in previous weeks after 30 mins watching  birds coming   and going we set up in the far corner wind at our backs the barley was only above ankle height so picking them wouldn't be a problem, struggled at first to get any woodies into the decoys but the ferals played ball so we shot some of them to keep us occupied  a few woodies made it in the bag as well  then a combine appeared far end of the field and we thought that's that thought about packing up but it never  moved then we could see the farmer tinkering with it, it must of developed a problem and it sat there for the rest of the session a bit of luck on our part   the woodies turned  up properly   about 2pm set the rotary  up but they wouldn't decoy a lot shying away or passed wide of us we split up  I moved  about 70 yards to our right were they passed wide  it worked to an extent mostly flighting birds some decoyed but it was an enjoyable session with the variety 

50 woodies 

18 ferals  could of shot a lot more 

3 magpies 

3 crows 

1 jay 

Edited September 29, 2018 by yickdaz

[pigeon controller]

Sounds a great session Daz, so the sugar in the fuel on the combine worked !!!! Im amazed that you still have crops to be harvested all ours are done and dusted. Again a good session.

[yickdaz]

4 minutes ago, pigeon controller said:

Sounds a great session Daz, so the sugar in the fuel on the combine worked !!!! Im amazed that you still have crops to be harvested all ours are done and dusted. Again a good session.

nah mate just an ancient combine lol

Its only that one field on all of our permissions left standing and if he gets the combine back in action it will soon be off