Many birds around?

Glenbulldog

Well lads as the title states are ye meeting many pheasants at the moment or are things getting quiet ???

thehound

very poor showing of birds around our area all season , put the birds on the ground but had trouble with pinemartin on second night scattered birds everywhere.very disheartening after all the work

Glenbulldog

We had a good start just seemed to dry up over a 2week spell ....sorry to hear that btw

deerhunter1

Glenbulldog wrote: »

We had a good start just seemed to dry up over a 2week spell ....sorry to hear that btw

Same here

ace86

seen a few the last few days alright myself when i was out.

Glenbulldog

ace86 wrote: »

seen a few the last few days alright myself when i was out.

Are you meeting much in general? Did you release many?

Birdnuts

Still a few birds knockin about on Blessington GC land. Obviously numbers will drop off as the season proceeds with the "easy" birds being bagged in the first few weeks. Many lads go back on the ducks after Christmas or the woodcock/snipe which are starting to come in in good numbers now that the cold weather is kicking in here and in Europe

brianfrancis45

During the Summer I saw more wild clutches than I'd seen for many years and the club also released a large number of birds, so I was looking forward to and expecting a really good season.

Unfortunately it hasn't turned out like that and both myself and my shooting buddy have less than a handful shot each . What is even more disappointing is that we haven't come across any of the birds stocked this year. In fact all were wild birds bar one cock, which we could tell from the colour of the ring , was released last year.

In short the pheasant shooting on our ground has been very poor this year and I've had to venture much further afield , where I have another permission. Thanks to recent colder weather the number of woodcock coming in has increased and the duck shooting there has also been very good , so at least the dogs are now getting some decent sport.

huntsman77

Same here lads prob the worst year I can remember has been gradually getting worse here over the last 3 or 4 year . hard to keep an interest when walking for hours and meeting nothaing bad feeling next year will be even worse.

shotie

plenty birds knocking around here but there hard got .watched a lovly cock picking from a feeder the other moring was great to see. i dont mind if i dont bag anything while out, just been out with the dogs and gun does it for me .

ESB Spaniel

met 5 cocks, 5 hens and 5 woodcock today....shot 3 cocks and 2 woodcock...:D

Glenbulldog

shotie wrote: »

plenty birds knocking around here but there hard got .watched a lovly cock picking from a feeder the other moring was great to see. i dont mind if i dont bag anything while out, just been out with the dogs and gun does it for me .

Same as if I'm honest

Glenbulldog

ESB Spaniel wrote: »

met 5 cocks, 5 hens and 5 woodcock today....shot 3 cocks and 2 woodcock...:D

That's a good stir considering its late in the season

ESB Spaniel

Glenbulldog wrote: »

That's a good stir considering its late in the season

not too bad will upload video over the weekend

Glenbulldog

ESB Spaniel wrote: »

not too bad will upload video over the weekend

Yeah do,love watching them vids

ESB Spaniel

Glenbulldog wrote: »

Yeah do,love watching them vids

Was out with another lad with a go pro so waiting to edit both recordings and join them together with different angles.

Glenbulldog

ESB Spaniel wrote: »

Was out with another lad with a go pro so waiting to edit both recordings and join them together with different angles.

That's a great idea