Flocks of Geese

greenpeter

Anyone notice the large flocks of geese crossing the country over the last few days? I'm in county Meath and there flying over heading south, some of the flocks are up near jets in the sky its some sight another flock came very close to the house making a serious racket. I never seen it before. Whats the season for them anyway?

macnas

Are you around Kells by any chance?, I've heard that the geese use the towers there as navigational aids.

greenpeter

I'm not that far from kells, i dont know how they navigate but they do make some trip

johnfaul

i saw a flock heading towards kells direction this morning bout 10 of dem.

J.R.

greenpeter wrote: »

Anyone notice the large flocks of geese crossing the country over the last few days? Whats the season for them anyway?

Season is closed for county Meath since Oct. 15

pullandbang

Saw a skien of about 200 of them cross over Crumlin Shopping Centre a few days ago.

lightening

They are most likely Brent geese. I am nearly sure they are protected.

bitemybanger

Huge numbers of Brents flock to St Annes park every year.
Grab your bow and arrow:eek:;)

meathstevie

Had a crack at geese in Belgium over Christmas. Nr 2 steelshot ( lead's been outlawed over there since a few years ) in both barrels. Great shooting. The lads from the Dad's gunclub call them Nile Geese and they're regarded as an exotic intruder species over there, vermin to cut a long story short. The meat was no great shakes. I tried to fillet a few breasts to fry them but the texture of the meat was like strands of rope stuck together with superglue. Boiled it all up and fed it to Da's wirehair.

greenpeter

meathstevie wrote: »

Had a crack at geese in Belgium over Christmas. Nr 2 steelshot ( lead's been outlawed over there since a few years ) in both barrels. Great shooting. The lads from the Dad's gunclub call them Nile Geese and they're regarded as an exotic intruder species over there, vermin to cut a long story short. The meat was no great shakes. I tried to fillet a few breasts to fry them but the texture of the meat was like strands of rope stuck together with superglue. Boiled it all up and fed it to Da's wirehair.

Sounds like a good trip meathstevie i'd love to try a bit of goose shooting think i mite save for a trip to scotland this year

meathstevie

Grew up there greenpeter. Some good shooting over that way. The club the Da is in does nothing but walk up shoots and on the 22nd of December they bagged the following : 23 cocks, 2 mallards, 14 hares and 22 rabbits. That's between 6 guns, 7 beaters and 2 good pointers. It has taken them years of vermin control and tons of maize for feeding but man they have some shooting.