jim_whitson Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Has anyone used one? Made one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 A new one for me, unless I know it by another name. What are they used for ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 A Google search shows, that they are the nets used for catching small birds. I have seen them in Spain and France, but not in the UK. Would they be legal here ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Fish Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 (edited) Edited March 24, 2006 by The Big Fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniper316 Posted February 21, 2005 Report Share Posted February 21, 2005 I work on a farm and i caught a knobhead catching the local population of bullfinches with one in a hawthorn copse.He had a tame cockbird in a box in an 8ft hawthorn tree and when sprung this net covered the whole tree.Legged it when he saw me coming but my dog had him cowering before too long.Released 27 bullfinches,including his tame one,burned his trap and shall we say he "got a good talking to". :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Fish Posted February 22, 2005 Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 (edited) Edited March 24, 2006 by The Big Fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_whitson Posted February 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2005 Yeah, that's the idea, except I want to make a fowl-sized version. :-D Also, I'm toying with the idea of a kind of cast net, but for waterfowl. bwahahah. As you may be able to tell, I've been reading antique fowling books for inspiration... So far, the difficult bit seems to be getting the force to snap the net shut. One option would be a (pair of) spring(s), mounted at the hinge of the nets. But then the spring(s) would have to maintain a good pressure throughout their swing, without having too much force (i.e. fowl-snapping) at any point. The other option is ropes and rings mounted above the net, e.g. on undergrowth. Both seem rather dodgy. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 If you have access to a pond why not make a decoy if you want to get loads of shot free waterfowl ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_whitson Posted February 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hmmm... I'm not sure what you mean... The only kind of decoying I know about involves shooting.... Do you mean some kind of decoy-based trap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 It's when you have a tunnel type arrangement that funnels the birds into a stop end on your flight pond, they are known as decoys, not sure if it's still legal though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 AH but old rooster he would have to train a decoy dog to get the decoy to work properly. And where would you get a dog that looked like a fox and be as obidient as a field trial winner these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 I work on a farm and i caught a knobhead catching the local population of bullfinches with one in a hawthorn copse.He had a tame cockbird in a box in an 8ft hawthorn tree and when sprung this net covered the whole tree.Legged it when he saw me coming but my dog had him cowering before too long.Released 27 bullfinches,including his tame one,burned his trap and shall we say he "got a good talking to". I can remember as a lad, orchard owners being able to trap bullfinches in nets, to protect their blossom. In fact a local Farmer use to have one of his men walking round and shooting into the large flocks with a 12 bore. I often wondered how much blossom was blown off the trees by the gun, against what the birds ate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted February 24, 2005 Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 The Spanish are always out catching small songbirds to sell, seems a bit 'orrid as they were not born in captivity and must find it hard to adapt to life in a cage. We see them quite often lurking about on the cliffs near where we go on hols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim_whitson Posted February 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2005 And in Italy, they still (illegaly) use bird lime to trap robins (!) to eat. Apparently they make classy starters in posh restaurants o_0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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