henry d Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 I have noticed good numbers of duck and geese, especially canadas, local to me on the Tay and Eden. Even back as far as June I had seen excellent broods of local greys. How is it looking your way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmo Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 Loch Leven has a lot of greys and Canada’s at the moment we have the on 2 fields . Duck are a shock we have no teal but normally at this time we have 200 plus on 1 pond alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted August 26, 2019 Report Share Posted August 26, 2019 31 minutes ago, Salmo said: Loch Leven has a lot of greys and Canada’s at the moment we have the on 2 fields . Duck are a shock we have no teal but normally at this time we have 200 plus on 1 pond alone I would go along with that , we have got a lot of resident Greys and a good lot of Canad's , but the duck seem in very short supply , we had a lot of decent broods early which should be now on the wing , I am wondering if the large amounts of flight ponds are drawing in the duck as you are seeing very few going on the barley stubble's, nowhere near like they used to . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted August 27, 2019 Report Share Posted August 27, 2019 Seen loads of duck on village ponds all over the greens and geese flying over. On checking our marsh very little about. Hope the duck are there come the first. Locally more and more wildfowl are going to parks and staying put. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam triple Posted August 28, 2019 Report Share Posted August 28, 2019 over 100 Canadas apparently with Teal coming in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Shooter Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 Had the same feeling but thought it was my imagination. Seen lots of ducks in ponds in and around town and the estuary was pretty empty last time I checked. Good numbers of resident Canada and Gray on the east coast but probably these have been lifted off by many beach goers given the good weather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundodger2 Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 Ducks and Canada's a plenty down here. In the southwest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aberisle Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 While out fishing on Loch Lomond earlier this month i saw a brood of Mallard chicks that were still in down they would probably be a second or even third brood so hopefully it should be a good duck season, plenty of Canadas about as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted August 29, 2019 Report Share Posted August 29, 2019 Had a mallard duck raise five youngsters on a farm pond and a moorhen on the same pond also raised five chicks. The mallard managed to save two and the moorhen one. The remainder went down the gullet of a local buzzard and I had it on trail cam. NOW, supposedly buzzards only eat carrion don't they ? The good news is that it appears the heavy rains we have had have not caused to much havoc with pheasant broods as we are seeing groups of eight and ten well grown poults about and this is in woodland whre birds are not released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterr Posted June 17, 2020 Report Share Posted June 17, 2020 hope its agood one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry78 Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Yes the big lough I’m gonna hunt this year has good numbers of mallard 🦆 flying about so hopefully be good year Bit with wildfowl You never know 🙄🙄🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamch Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Suppose that depends on whether or not the wuckfits at Natural England grant your wildfowling consents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted June 19, 2020 Report Share Posted June 19, 2020 Seen plenty of broods of Canada's and greylags locally, whether they remain come the season is another matter. They usually ****** off on the fields and if enough moon stay on feeding and don't flight on our marsh. All the earth works and raising of water levels is done and getting back to normal so fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norfolk wildfowler Posted June 28, 2020 Report Share Posted June 28, 2020 (edited) For the forth year running the East Norfolk duck seem to have had a very poor breeding season. This season at least I thought the warm dry spring would let them do well , but I have only seen 2 well grown broods on the marshes and too many pairs about for the time of year. Village ponds are a different story where the young get fed by the public. I have been doing a lot of fishing on the Chet and Wavenly and yet to see any ducklings on the open rivers. What is even more worrying I have been doing some pond dipping on the South Breydon Marshes and insect life is very sparce. Few water beetles , no water boatmen, only a handful shrimps and few dragon and damselfly lava. In short the dykes are almost empty of aquatic insect life and its this very life that the ducklings depend on in their early days. Just look up the national trends in mallard populations in the UK and the breeding population were down by -7 indices over the last 20 years and -33 for wintering birds. Greylag on the other hand seem to have some very good broods with one of five and a second of 8 seen ( all just flying ) seen on the Wavenly Yesterday. Edited June 28, 2020 by Norfolk wildfowler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaniel Posted July 4, 2020 Report Share Posted July 4, 2020 Never managed to even get out last season, so hopeful this season will be a good one No trips booked so staying local on our club land this season, but no doubt will start planning a trip for next season 2021/2022 some where up North Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manish Posted July 19, 2020 Report Share Posted July 19, 2020 On 28/06/2020 at 16:07, Norfolk wildfowler said: For the forth year running the East Norfolk duck seem to have had a very poor breeding season. This season at least I thought the warm dry spring would let them do well , but I have only seen 2 well grown broods on the marshes and too many pairs about for the time of year. Village ponds are a different story where the young get fed by the public. I have been doing a lot of fishing on the Chet and Wavenly and yet to see any ducklings on the open rivers. What is even more worrying I have been doing some pond dipping on the South Breydon Marshes and insect life is very sparce. Few water beetles , no water boatmen, only a handful shrimps and few dragon and damselfly lava. In short the dykes are almost empty of aquatic insect life and its this very life that the ducklings depend on in their early days. Just look up the national trends in mallard populations in the UK and the breeding population were down by -7 indices over the last 20 years and -33 for wintering birds. Greylag on the other hand seem to have some very good broods with one of five and a second of 8 seen ( all just flying ) seen on the Wavenly Yesterday. Thats not a good thing. Im hoping for a good session too. During the spring I was seeing good numbers of mallard on the Ouse near Downham Market. Still seeing a few but didnt spot any young. Maybe they went up to the sailing club near the pub. Its non tidal there so less harsh I guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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