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Went on patrol yesterday, about 1.00pm. Saw a good-sized flock get up in the distance and found a drilled field (one of several) with loads still on it. Nosed my truck into the gateway in the hedge and they all got up in a huge flock and left. Continued on my rounds and came back 45 minutes later, not a pigeon to be seen.

So today, I arrived about 9.30, loads of birds on the assorted fields, especially the favourite from yesterday. Again, they all jumped off in a huge flock. I watched for 45 minutes, a few smaller flocks came back but just landed in the trees and never hit the field. As I went to check the other fields, a huge flock took off from a nearby wood (nothing to do with me scaring them!) and departed. There were a few small groups around on the other fields but they too left. The tree-dwellers were still in the trees at 11.45 so I went home.

Are they feeding from 1st light and are full of grain before I got there? Are they just plain not that hungry? Are they flocked up already? How can I get to grips with them?

Ideas?

Cheers, JK

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A lot of them might had come from across the channel and you must remember there clocks don't change so they will feed a hour earlier , or later ( I still get it mixed up ) then our ones that were born or hatched out in the UK .:hmm:

Back to your original question then the easy answer would be during the hours of daylight , I used to shoot a lot of Pigeons from first light but depending on what time of the Winter the late afternoons were a lot less productive .    MM :good:

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There’s not always going to be a set pattern of birds feeding somewhere. I come across lots of situations that I’ll watch/keep an eye on and decide not to shoot due to no real pattern / lines in. That’s not to say I’ve never set up and been amazed at how things change once you start shooting, but sometimes through experience you get a feeling of what is / isn’t going to shoot well. 
If you’ve no other options and fancy going, just give it a go and see how it goes! 

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32 minutes ago, Wilts#Dave said:

There’s not always going to be a set pattern of birds feeding somewhere. I come across lots of situations that I’ll watch/keep an eye on and decide not to shoot due to no real pattern / lines in. That’s not to say I’ve never set up and been amazed at how things change once you start shooting, but sometimes through experience you get a feeling of what is / isn’t going to shoot well. 
If you’ve no other options and fancy going, just give it a go and see how it goes! 

There is a lot of truth in your post Dave, if you have only got a few Pigeons going on some fields that you can shoot on then they are your choice , if you cannot convince yourself if it is worth setting up then you carry on looking at what you have got on offer , it is hard enough in the warmer months of the Summer when you have got numerous grain fields , then as you well know with o s r it is a sight harder in the Winter months when the weather can be dull , no wind and get dark early like it is at the moment , sometimes you can set up when you think you are on a decent day and it turn out a total blank , then it go as expected and finally a lot better than you thought it was going to be , but that is the way it have always been , so unless you give it a go then you will never know if it was worth going or not .:good:

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5 hours ago, Wilts#Dave said:

If you’ve no other options and fancy going, just give it a go and see how it goes! 

He's been given this advice many times in his other threads whinging about nothing goes as he 'expected' 😆😂

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1 hour ago, JKD said:

He's been given this advice many times in his other threads whinging about nothing goes as he 'expected' 😆😂

I think he's a wind up merchant JKD , as it is around Guy Fawkes night he is seeing which one of us have got the shortest fuse :lol: 

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3 minutes ago, marsh man said:

I think he's a wind up merchant JKD , as it is around Guy Fawkes night he is seeing which one of us have got the shortest fuse  

Yeah, perhaps he'll soon,,,,,,, fizzle out 😆🥳😂

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Anyway,,,, I'm off to prepare my gear for some pigeon shooting at first light tomorrow, because that's the best time in my neck of the woods 🤭😆

7 minutes ago, marsh man said:

You Southerners pronounce things different to us :lol: as you can (sea ) I have still got water on my brain .   MM

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