wheat cut

[bignoel]

the farmer cut his wheat saturday no sign of pigeon's i noticed that a feild of old stubble has quite a gathering do they prefer old cut feilds to fresh cut feilds .bad day on fresh cut 9 woodies 5 rooks ..

[bob300w]

the farmer cut his wheat saturday no sign of pigeon's i noticed that a feild of old stubble has quite a gathering do they prefer old cut feilds to fresh cut feilds .bad day on fresh cut 9 woodies 5 rooks ..

I think that part of the problem is that all of the wheat is cut at the same time and there is a large choice of fields, disturb them on one field and they simply use another. It's the same down here, there are no large flocks either, flocks of 10-15's are the average.

[webber]

McF and myself intend to shoot a field of wheat which was harvested yesterday. Hopefully late this afternoon, we will be in the hide stuck inti the pigeons. It will be the first time on decoyed pigeon for over a year. I can hardly wait.

 

webber

[bignoel]

hmmm seem's they are spoilt for choice at the moment menu is plentifull.

[casts_by_fly]

up here, pigeons are only clustered at roost sites. Crows on the other hand are flocked in groups of 2-3 hundred. There are a lot of young ones yet. Unfortunately (or fortunately for the farmer), none are on my fields.

 

thanks

rick

[Staffs-Shooter]

In my experience they usually need a day or two to switch onto the fresh stubbles then after a couple of days feeding move on to fresh stubbles. That said a lot depends on how much has been cut & how bad they are disturbed. Around here its mainly rape stubbles with the odd field of barley cut. Can only think of one wheat stubble.

 

Given the current and forcasted weather the shooting this year should be spaced out instead of the usual rushed period.

[Highlander]

If there's any rape stubble in the area they'll hit that in preference to wheat but is wheat's all there is then find the one field they want to be on...it's all down to the recce!