Dunkield Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Taken last night and this morning, with a camera phone so no zoom as it wrecks the image. In the last 24 hours without even trying I must have seen a dozen roe, one the ones on my rabbit only permission with the best head I have seen for a while - oh well . . This was yesterday evening, I was stood at the gate watching the pigeons, when I realised I was being watched as well You might need to squint a bit to see it, it is at the back of the shadow. And then this morning on the dog walk, this buck was about 20 feet away, looked up me as I got my phone out, and dipped his head just as I took the picture and carried on feeding. Again you have look quite hard, he is to the right of the tree in the foreground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulkyuk Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Time to get the Musket out instead of the camera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJN Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 If you blow the image up to 400x you can just about make something out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 You are being watched by wheat and trees? Do you not think that the paranoia has gotten a tad worse lately? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Time to get the Musket out instead of the camera To be pefectly honest I like seeing them about, we see up 3 on the dog walks - sounds odd from someone who stalks, but I was quite saddened when I saw a high seat up against one of the trees. But I am fairly sure that was to shoot the foxes as it is a keepered partridge/pheasant shoot, all threse are still about anyways. I think it just goes to show it isn't all about killing, it is about management, the population is thin enough to not cuase anyone any concern. The permission I mentioned is actually a very big 'back garden' they like seeing the roe and if I lived there I would too, shooting the buck would be very easy but apart from the head, a bit pointless. The muntjac on the other hand Bob, blow the image up, if that doesn't help get yourself along to Specsavers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 (edited) Should have gone to specsavers i should have typed quicker Edited July 16, 2008 by harv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Time to get the Musket out instead of the camera To be pefectly honest I like seeing them about, we see up 3 on the dog walks - sounds odd from someone who stalks, but I was quite saddened when I saw a high seat up against one of the trees. But I am fairly sure that was to shoot the foxes as it is a keepered partridge/pheasant shoot, all threse are still about anyways. I think it just goes to show it isn't all about killing, it is about management, the population is thin enough to not cuase anyone any concern. The permission I mentioned is actually a very big 'back garden' they like seeing the roe and if I lived there I would too, shooting the buck would be very easy but apart from the head, a bit pointless. The muntjac on the other hand Bob, blow the image up, if that doesn't help get yourself along to Specsavers Specsavers sell venison now? S'truth! I have to admit that I agree with everything that you have said, (apart from blowing the image up, you could have done that before you posted it!) and it's not all about killing, when I had a flight pond a few years back, I used to shoot six duck, then just sit back watching them dropping in and feeding, it was as much pleasure as the actual shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted July 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 To make it easier for the hard of seeing, red circles are pigeons, black circle is the roe. (yellow is wheat and green are trees blue is sky etc etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 It's a good job the red circles weren't Roe, we'd have thought you had been smoking something illegal man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 Are red circles in season at the moment? And no suitable backstop either, this just gets worse. And what about the other roe, 80 yards to the left of the one in the black snare? Specsavers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 are they crop circles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulkyuk Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I totally agree with both of you, its not always about pulling the trigger - My father was a gamekeepr, and he never shot any of his own pheasants, partridge etc (He Just couldn't do it to birds he had reared from day old) - Its also nice to just sit/stand and watch as the worlrd goes by somedays Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob300w Posted July 16, 2008 Report Share Posted July 16, 2008 I totally agree with both of you, its not always about pulling the trigger - My father was a gamekeepr, and he never shot any of his own pheasants, partridge etc (He Just couldn't do it to birds he had reared from day old) - Its also nice to just sit/stand and watch as the worlrd goes by somedays Yes, it's surprising how many gamekeepers that I have met who won't shoot 'their own' birds, but have no problem watching others do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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