JDog Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 I watched this field for twenty minutes and never saw a bird either entering or leaving the field. I parked up and this lot came marching towards me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TIGHTCHOKE Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Did you shoot any of them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Walker570 Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Come on man...stealing a Joe Biden phrase... They are all decoys, you can't con us.................................. can you? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
old'un Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 The other day I watched a flock of around 100 pigeons land and walk almost the full length of a 30 acre barley field, not one other bird joined them, then all of a sudden they were up and gone and never returned. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Centrepin Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 That's a lot of decoys to put out🤦🤣 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDog Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Did you shoot any of them? Gathering my strength today so no. 58 minutes ago, Walker570 said: Come on man...stealing a Joe Biden phrase... They are all decoys, you can't con us.................................. can you? There were about 350. I haven’t got that many decoys. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clodhopper Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 6 minutes ago, Centrepin said: That's a lot of decoys to put out🤦🤣 He has staff to do that for him😁 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aga man Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Can't blame them for wanting to be out of that wind. Evil chill to it today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stockybasher Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, old'un said: The other day I watched a flock of around 100 pigeons land and walk almost the full length of a 30 acre barley field, not one other bird joined them, then all of a sudden they were up and gone and never returned. There seems to be a lot of that happening ! In my area it seems the farmers are getting some very good field preparation and the drillings is going very well with very fine soil. With modern drills there is very little grain etc left on the surface for the pigeons. So a flock arrives from perching on power lines after they see the tractor activity, scope out if there's anything for them, and then off to the next field etc etc. The crows are a bit more canny and can find a drill line and follow it and dig a bit deeper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clangerman Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 so easy to miss them on the recon surprising how many times you can return to check on fields a second time to find it now blue with birds Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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