Pigeon numbers

EastTyrone

In relation to the thread "rabbit numbers" I have noticed a large increase in pigeon numbers, this in an area of soley livestock famring, has anyone else noticed a similar increase?

gentleman jim

quite the opposite. cant seem to find them anywhere. was in wexford last week on a freshly sown field, they only came in, in one's and two's! but no big numbers!

endasmail

i see them everywhere in the fields
haven got out have a shot at them yet

EastTyrone

well ive seen about 15 this week and i live in a semi mountainous/ pastural farming land and before this i was lucky to have seen 15 in the year!!!! i also seen a curlew this morning, for what ever reason my parish has a good strong breeding population

joedes

Spotted your post East Tyrone. It was from April 2009 and I'm wondering if those numbers are around the parish again in 2010.

We were plauged by them last year. They were eating meal out of livestock bins and ruining oats ans barley stalks. I begged the gun club to come shoot them but they never came out. (I have a good recipe for them! but don't have a gun to shoot them):-(

They are not here in the same numbers this year. They weren't hunted out so maybe the frosty winter did them in???

Joe Des - North Galway

p.s. Ooops! I was looking at your Join Date rather than the positng date! Message still the same. I think it is just down to environment conditions. If the conditions are right they will breed to match it. Joe

trebor28

One cannot see the sky in central tipperary......:D

ronn

i was in Waterford 2 weeks ago decoying pidgeons, set out the decoys i had no crow or magpie decoys only pidgeons, shot 22 crows and 1 pidgeon

marlin vs

It's alive with them where I go and has been all through the game season, i'm going to leave them alone for another few weeks,in the meantime i'm trying to sharpen myself up by shooting some clay's.

yessam

In the intrest of good pigeon shooting later on I think it would be best to let the pigeons get the breeding season out of the way before we start shooting them.

endasmail

yessam wrote: »

In the intrest of good pigeon shooting later on I think it would be best to let the pigeons get the breeding season out of the way before we start shooting them.

dont think the farmer would like hearing that
and them lashing his corn out of it

marlin vs

As soon as they start attacking the young barley shoots i'll be after them.

yessam

Originally Posted by yessam
In the intrest of good pigeon shooting later on I think it would be best to let the pigeons get the breeding season out of the way before we start shooting them.

dont think the farmer would like hearing that
and them lashing his corn out of it

I agree with you about protecting the crops now, but i like the big bags of pigeons that can be got when they are plentyfull. Makes the setting up of the decoys and hide worth while. Noting as bad as putting a big effort into building a hide and setting up decoys for a handfull of pigeons.

Goosie

EastTyrone wrote: »

In relation to the thread "rabbit numbers" I have noticed a large increase in pigeon numbers, this in an area of soley livestock famring, has anyone else noticed a similar increase?

Big increase in numbers around my area this year.

Think it could be a direct result of the decrease in Grey Crow/ Magpie numbers over the last couple of years.