any areas to hunt geese ?

rugermk3

i have a foreshore license and use it for duck shooting on the state lakes around the country , but last year i wanted to try my hand at the geese i was looking around the shorelines around Dublin louth meath and every place i went was a wildlife sanctuarie, ,now on the pages u get with the foreshore license list all the sanctuaries , and it list all the lakes u can hunt on, but not a thing about where u can hunt geese, ive asked a few guys i know that hunt with no luck because they have never done it, one person did say there is somewhere in wexford but that's all he knew on the subject , i also rang parks & wildlife and they couldn't tell me

could anyone shed some light on it ? cheers

cookimonster

If you have some permissions around the east coast then have a look around marshland, grassland or stubble fields. There are still a good few geese around for you to determine thier feeding spots. Good locations are near the bird sanctuaries and perfectly legal in season.
But that's the problem the hunting season in Ireland specifically around the east coast is too early as many of the migratory birds come in well after the season is over. I get to shoot duck on a coastal marsh and we have to watch enviously as the geese fly over our heads every night.

There is shooting in Wexford slobs but AFAIK you have to pay per day, someone else here may better inform you.

duckman!!

We'll if ya go on the lough corrib there are loads of geese that are mongrels and are there all year long. A few years ago some wild geese mated with backyard geese and there are packs of geese with 50 or more birds now! Taste like **** though!!

deerhunter1

duckman!! wrote: »

We'll if ya go on the lough corrib there are loads of geese that are mongrels and are there all year long. A few years ago some wild geese mated with backyard geese and there are packs of geese with 50 or more birds now! Taste like **** though!!

TRUE:eek::D

Capercaille

These lads frquent my farm, Icelandic Greylags:)


The Barnacles frequent in bigger numbers:

cookimonster

The Barnacles frequent in bigger numbers:
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These guys have the surrounding parklands and football fields covered in sh1t. They'll come off the water around 8ish in the morning and move a couple of miles inland to the grass. It's very impressive to see them in formation over the housing estate and then curl around and drop onto the green. The buggers know thier safe and fly low in from the coast.

Any time we've seen geese over the marsh they stay high well out of range and then drop into the sanctuary safe and sound...........

Capercaille

I think your're taking about Brent geese, not the barnacles that are in photo. Neither are on the quarry list though.

pheasantmad

Seen we are on the subject of geese, why is the season for greys and canadian from the 1st sept to 15 oct ( bar a few isolated spots in wexford and cork) dont think they would be many in that early?

Capercaille

pheasantmad wrote: »

Seen we are on the subject of geese, why is the season for greys and canadian from the 1st sept to 15 oct ( bar a few isolated spots in wexford and cork) dont think they would be many in that early?

Canada geese are resident and non-migratory so will be present from sept 1st-oct 15. You do get true wild vagrants though.
The early season for greylags is to limit the effect on the Icelandic birds (I think), which winter in Ireland .

cookimonster

Capercaille wrote: »

I think your're taking about Brent geese, not the barnacles that are in photo. Neither are on the quarry list though.

My bad, must not have been paying attention in nature studies that day, just aswell I don't shoot the geese I see.

These Brent Geese are the ones all over the place in my neck of the woods.