pigeon controller Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 We had a call at 08.00 Saturday morning, problems with corvids on the seed. now DB had some work to complete at home so I made my way to the field concerned and met up with the farmer. Its only a small couple of fields but he had cut the barley and left a fair amount on the field and the corvids,pigeons and geese had found it the concern was that the ajoinong half of the field was now going to be seeded and he was concerned that they would move onto that. After chatting to the farmer and watching the lines into the stubble and also the wind conditions I decided to set up between the fields in the centre. I was all set up by 10.00 with six fresh pigeon two on flappers and one on a flyer and the others on spikes. The first pair of birds came from behind banked in front of me and set for the decoys , perfect. The farmer continued to work behind me but the birds were happy set for the decoys, I was using Express 28gram steel and managed some impressive shooting at distance with the second birds. After a couple of hours it started to slow up as the farmer completed his rolling and departed, this in effect slowed up the shooting also. I then received a call from DB saying that another farmer had called and could I meet him at the farm. When I arrived I could see lots of birds flighting but was surprised that they were feeding on Oats, now this is a crop that we normally never shoot birds on. We set up with twelve fresh birds on the edge of the crop and the birds just kept coming. It slowed up about 16.00 annd we packed up at 17.00 and picked up one hundred and twentysix pigeons. Normally I'm not here for the stubble shooting and have a concern with cooling and freezing mega bags of pigeons, so a couple of bags protecting crops are welcome. My set up on the field 75 Pigeons 20 corvids 126 Pigeons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 Lovely stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted August 16, 2020 Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 Just think you could be in Greece drinking beer and making hide nets instead. Nice report. 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2020 1 hour ago, dead eye alan said: Just think you could be in Greece drinking beer and making hide nets instead. Nice report. 😃 Go on rub it in!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 Good report and bag as usual PC. Interesting to note that you didn't use or need a rotary. OB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted August 17, 2020 Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 17 hours ago, pigeon controller said: Go on rub it in!!!!! No not really i'm in the same boat, missing my 3 months in Turkey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2020 5 hours ago, Old Boggy said: Good report and bag as usual PC. Interesting to note that you didn't use or need a rotary. OB I did not use the rotary as I was after corvids as well and I have found that the rotary with pigeons on it spooks the corvids in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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