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beretta686s

was out this morning doing a spot of fishing,not with much luck just a few tiddlers,but there was a great hatch of young ducks around hopefully a few of them last the season for a few shots next season.And the pup is flying it in the water not a bother retrieving in water.also a lot of drakes around mobbing every hen they saw and saw 2 clutches of chicks with no hen in sight maybe drowned by drakes?:)

beretta391

and i cant wait for the 1st of september

Spunk84

i am 99% sure i seen a tufted duck flight over the house today heading to the canal, really cool looking duck:) Also great number of ducklings in the ditches behind the house;) bring on September!!!!!

rugerman

bring the gun with you i saw a grey crow take 4 ducklings down the river saturday

Thomasofmel

I saw as well as a grey was following the ducklings by walking on the footpath next to the stream eyeballing them. had no gun with me, so had to chase the crow away - sure he will be back

12gaugedave

Thomasofmel wrote: »

I saw as well as a grey was following the ducklings by walking on the footpath next to the stream eyeballing them. had no gun with me, so had to chase the crow away - sure he will be back

I always bring the gun when i go fishing, was down at a local spot 2 weeks ago, had 2 rods on the go, just lieing back relaxing when i heard russeling an the ditch far side of the river, sat up and here was a big dog fox sneaking up on something, picked up the shotgun and dropped him from about 25 yards, didnt get so much as a bite after that but was worth it to get charlie. Only thing was i had to walk about 2 miles to get around the river to collect him, when i got over there there were 4 chicks huddled an the grass about 10 feet from the fox. so there safe for another while now anyway.:)

beretta686s

couldnt really shoot where i was could blow some poor fecker walking his dog away on the far bank:p:p:p,yea roll on sept we may get a day after them ducks rugerman

kemen

seeing imgratary ducks at this time does it mean they are hear for the year?? i have a small lake beside me and its full of tufties and golden eye at the mo! also seeing alot od woddcock into my plantin

rambo87

One of the lads had to dig a well/ pond the other day for a company (water supply for horses) .. he basically dug out a pond and let a stream fill it...
Now he did it in a way so that we might get a few duck coming in to it.. we have a few duck each year, last year was great, but our duck are on lakes/ ponds on big private estates and stud farms which is inaccessible.
How do you feed up the pond to get a few ducks on it.. (this is about half an acre) We have it fenced off so might buy a few and rear them in the future.
One lad suggested potatoes left around it?

beretta686s

u should have some cover 4 them maybe release a few on it and clip their wings so the cant fly off mite intice other birds in they also love barley,and dont over shoot it and most of all dont tell any1 else where it is,or ull have nothing left to shoot,just another thing been on the carlow waterford dual carriage a gud bit lately and noticed the over flow ponds on the side of the carriage way seen to have a gud lot of duck on them any else notice this.

sonofthegun

beretta686s wrote: »

u should have some cover 4 them maybe release a few on it and clip their wings so the cant fly off mite intice other birds in they also love barley,and dont over shoot it and most of all dont tell any1 else where it is,or ull have nothing left to shoot,just another thing been on the carlow waterford dual carriage a gud bit lately and noticed the over flow ponds on the side of the carriage way seen to have a gud lot of duck on them any else notice this.

+1 lad i walk the dogs on an access road that runs along side the bypass it has 3 over flow ponds on this stretch and all are holding Duck