activeviii Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Was out with Bobby Dazzler the weekend shooting a few crows and pigs that made the mistake of flying to close. as the norm, bobby was on form and banging them from a 1/2 mile away. we were sat there in a joint hide and calling the birds every name under the sun for not coming in close enough when all of a sudden a pigeon popped over the hedge and landed next to a bead bird that was just laid out. we are shooting on very short golf course type grass, this pigeon then puffs out its chest and jumps on the back of this dead pigeon and is trying its hardest to give the poor thing a good seeing to. i was laughing to much to do anything and bobby was the same, in the end he pulled himself together enough so sort the dirt bird out. well he went with a bang. never seen this before and i doubt i will see it again. anyone else seen this happen? Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mark1187 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Yep! Woodies and Collar doves, I like to think it's down to my presentation of the bird on the wire cradle One time after fetching an airgun I saw a lot of movement and thought I don't remember leaving a flapper out! Unfortunately for him his post-coitus nap last longer than expected....... Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I think I'd wet myself if I saw that. :no: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun666 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 never seen it mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted August 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 the bird was just led out on grass with head up on stick. i just wish i could have got the video working on the phone as i could of made a few quid selling it hehe............dirty dirty bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyr8 Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 sure it was,nt giving it c p r Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 makes you think taking a camera is a good thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobby dazzler Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 it was funny in all the years i have been pigeon shooting never seen that before poor ****** i shot him before he shot his load and i have been trying to get the permission next door to the polo grounds where we were shooting at weekend and today got the go ahead to shoot this land and there is a lot of pigeons there and i mean a lot so when they cut this wheat should be a cracking day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted August 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 you could have let him finish the job.lol. poor poor ****** is now well ********. still, at least he went with a bang.lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DaveK Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 I think I'd wet myself if I saw that. :no: :lol: No that's because of your age. :P best on I saw was a little owl trying to carry away a hare after Lorraine had shot it. We were so impressed we left it for the owls dinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Yep i had that happen once, didnt have the heart to shot him in mid run so took him out on his flight out, died with a smile on his beak . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 I,ve seen this a number of times in the Midlands, all the pigeons round us have six claws per leg due to the inbreading!!!! I also had Buzards take my decoys twice. All this when you do not have a camera ready Good Shooting Pigeon Controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DustyIrl Posted August 7, 2009 Report Share Posted August 7, 2009 At least it died happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danccooke Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Had a buzzard dive at my Roatry last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarpa Posted August 23, 2009 Report Share Posted August 23, 2009 Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers. The strange case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck pushed out the boundaries of knowledge in a rather improbable way when it was recorded by Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker. It may have ruffled a few feathers, but it earned him the coveted Ig Nobel prize for biology awarded for improbable research, and next week he will be recounting his findings to UK audiences on the Ig Nobel tour. Ducks behave pretty badly, it seems. It is not so much that up to one in 10 of mallard couples are homosexual - no one would raise an eyebrow in the liberal Netherlands - but they regularly indulge in "attempted rape flights" when they pursue other ducks with a view to forcible mating. "Rape is a normal reproductive strategy in mallards," explains Mr Moeliker. As he recounts in his seminal paper, The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard anas platyrhynchos, he was in his office in the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, when he was alerted by a bang to the fact a bird had crashed into the glass facade of the building. "I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard (anas platyrhynchos) lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade. The unfortunate duck apparently had hit the building in full flight at a height of about three metres from the ground. Next to the obviously dead duck, another male mallard (in full adult plumage without any visible traces of moult) was present. He forcibly picked into the back, the base of the bill and mostly into the back of the head of the dead mallard for about two minutes, then mounted the corpse and started to copulate, with great force, almost continuously picking the side of the head. "Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which time (75 minutes) I made some photographs and the mallard almost continuously copulated his dead congener. He dismounted only twice, stayed near the dead duck and picked the neck and the side of the head before mounting again. The first break (at 18.29 hours) lasted three minutes and the second break (at 18.45 hours) lasted less than a minute. At 19.12 hours, I disturbed this cruel scene. The necrophilic mallard only reluctantly left his 'mate': when I had approached him to about five metres, he did not fly away but simply walked off a few metres, weakly uttering a series of two-note 'raeb-raeb' calls (the 'conversation-call' of Lorentz 1953). I secured the dead duck and left the museum at 19.25 hours. The mallard was still present at the site, calling 'raeb-raeb' and apparently looking for his victim (who, by then, was in the freezer)." Mr Moeliker suggests the pair were engaged in a rape flight attempt. "When one died the other one just went for it and didn't get any negative feedback - well, didn't get any feedback," he said. His findings have provoked a lot of interest - especially in Britain for some reason - but no other recorded cases of duck necrophilia. However, Mr Moeliker was informed of an American case involving a squirrel and a dead partner, although in this case it is not known whether the necrophilia observed was homosexual or not as the victim had been run over by a truck shortly before the incident. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/m...cation.research Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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