holloway Posted September 8, 2022 Report Share Posted September 8, 2022 Any reports on new arrivals yet ? Are numbers building? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scolopax Posted September 8, 2022 Report Share Posted September 8, 2022 A bird reserve 15 miles inland of the Humber reported 24 yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 No news yet on the Solway and no reports on WWT site. I expect to hear their haunting calls around the 12-14th. Praying the avian flu does not hit us again. No news coming in from Iceland on numbers of pinks or barnacles either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 1 hour ago, Dave at kelton said: No news yet on the Solway and no reports on WWT site. I expect to hear their haunting calls around the 12-14th. Praying the avian flu does not hit us again. No news coming in from Iceland on numbers of pinks or barnacles either. We have had two confirmed outbreaks of the bird flu in the past week where all the birds were culled , Pinks don't start arriving here for another 2 / 3 weeks , they seem to know when our Sugar Beet harvest start and with the lack of rain the opening of the beet factory have been put back by at least three weeks , people say they had seen the odd skein but these normally turn out to be young Greylags , which by all accounts have done well this year . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahamch Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 Just back from Orkney, hods of greys and I think heard a few pinks back end of last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakin stevens Posted September 9, 2022 Report Share Posted September 9, 2022 A friend of mine got a pink on the 1st , in all his fowling years he has never got one , I’ve had a few usually by the 10th , not even going to bother this year until they turn up in numbers . The beaches are strewn with dead or dying seabirds at the moment bird flu has not gone away, that’s why I’m waiting to see what happens when the geese arrive , it’s had a real impact up this way bird flu . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop Posted September 10, 2022 Report Share Posted September 10, 2022 Agreed its very disturbing.I feel strongly that once the masses congregate at Montrose they will have a really bad time with bird flu.If that happens i will end my season on geese as they will have enough to deal with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holloway Posted September 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 On 10/09/2022 at 22:20, bishop said: Agreed its very disturbing.I feel strongly that once the masses congregate at Montrose they will have a really bad time with bird flu.If that happens i will end my season on geese as they will have enough to deal with. Interesting hearing your views on not continuing shooting as we are now getting dead birds washing up down hear in Devon many of us feel it’s not right to continue shooting.They will potentially be weaker more stressed . Difficult for clubs to make the right call ,have any clubs stopped shooting because of it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 1 hour ago, holloway said: Interesting hearing your views on not continuing shooting as we are now getting dead birds washing up down hear in Devon many of us feel it’s not right to continue shooting.They will potentially be weaker more stressed . Difficult for clubs to make the right call ,have any clubs stopped shooting because of it ? Haven’t stopped shooting on the Solway we are just waiting to see what effect it may have, if any. Having no effect on resident greylag and canadas at present. Last year it was largely restricted to barnacles with limited effect on pinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holloway Posted September 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Dave at kelton said: Haven’t stopped shooting on the Solway we are just waiting to see what effect it may have, if any. Having no effect on resident greylag and canadas at present. Last year it was largely restricted to barnacles with limited effect on pinks. That’s all good to hear Dave .,I hope to get up to Caerlaverock at the end of October for my first visit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted September 12, 2022 Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 6 hours ago, holloway said: That’s all good to hear Dave .,I hope to get up to Caerlaverock at the end of October for my first visit. Let me know when you are about and I will try to meet you. Have my son up last week, half term, and then away early November. Keep in touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holloway Posted September 12, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Dave at kelton said: Let me know when you are about and I will try to meet you. Have my son up last week, half term, and then away early November. Keep in touch. Will do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigeon jim Posted September 13, 2022 Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 Pinks passing high over Fife today, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop Posted September 13, 2022 Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 1 hour ago, wigeon jim said: Pinks passing high over Fife today, I thought i heard some a few nights back but put it down to wishful thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushandpull Posted September 13, 2022 Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 Spurn Observatory (Humber) are reporting 28 pinkfeet today, southbound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted September 13, 2022 Report Share Posted September 13, 2022 Yep back end of the Moon gets them going. Seen several reports of Pinks coming in with numbers building and migration getting stronger. ☺️👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 That is the first pinks and barnacles here at Caerlaverock spot on time. Great to welcome them back! Numbers will build over the next couple of weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 first two small skein's seen today in cheshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Dave at kelton said: That is the first pinks and barnacles here at Caerlaverock spot on time. Great to welcome them back! Numbers will build over the next couple of weeks. Good to hear Dave have a good season when you start. 👍 9 very quickly turned to 151 on a place i shoot in Norfolk and landowners claiming regular goose calling during the Moon light. So the fun begins ☺️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave at kelton Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 5 minutes ago, 6.5x55SE said: Good to hear Dave have a good season when you start. 👍 9 very quickly turned to 151 on a place i shoot in Norfolk and landowners claiming regular goose calling during the Moon light. So the fun begins ☺️ Thanks, I like to let them settle before getting out so give it a week or ten days for my first trip out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolo Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 Just heard a small skein from my garden, I'm a mile and a half from the sea wall, Lincolnshire side of the wash. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 After not seeing the Sky Gypsies for a few months it is just as exciting seeing the first one arrive as it is putting the first one in the bag . In these troubled times with the bird virus and god know what is going on in the world around us we can only hope they have done as well as can be expected and I, and I hope everyone else will give them a certain amount of peace when they do arrive in numbers . At the moment and going by your reports they seem to be pretty well on time , the first ones will soon be arriving in Lincolnshire before moving on to N / Norfolk around the Holkham area , then it will only be a matter of days before some of them make the short journey to our neck of the woods which by going on the timing of previous years is around the end of September , another thing which could make a difference is the late start to this years Sugar beet campaign and what will be available for the geese to eat , you could well see geese where they haven't been seen before . Have a good season each and everyone of you . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushandpull Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 They are already on the north coast, marshman. I asked my mate, who lives that way, yesterday morning whether the geese were in. He held the phone out of the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Pushandpull said: They are already on the north coast, marshman. I asked my mate, who lives that way, yesterday morning whether the geese were in. He held the phone out of the window. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are already settling down somewhere up that way before making the next stage of there journey , we are now entering the third week of September and Wigeon numbers are now building up each day , mind you I have known a few to be on the estuary by late August and one year I did shoot one in the first week in September , all the record temp's we have had throughout the Summer must affect the movement of migrating wildfowl as well as the rare birds that keep turning up . What numbers we will get down here this year is any ones guess but we won't have long to find out . I was once in the Broadland area pigeon shooting a few years ago when I witnessed there arrival , a sight I had never seen before and have never seen the same sight since , geese were already on the next door stubble fields and throughout the day there never was a brief moment when there wasn't any geese in the air coming in off the sea from a Northerly direction , when I packed up during the afternoon they were then in the 1000s with even more heading towards the ones that were already resting , even if you haven't got any interest in shooting you cannot help looking towards the heavens when the skeins are heading out, or coming home in full cry without marveling at the sight in amazement . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 John ( Marsh Man ) there are already some in your area and I'd imagine that by the end of the weekend that several will be around. Good luck when you start having a look with gun and dog 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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