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  • 27-08-2018 05:20AM
    #1
    ezra_
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    So, anyone else in the situation where their usual ponds have dried up over the summer?


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  • #2
    cavan shooter
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    Yep...and lots of flapper it was a good year for breadin. Won't bother with the first, it will be slaughter of the innocence.


  • #3
    Birdnuts
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    cavan shooter wrote: »
    Yep...and lots of flapper it was a good year for breadin. Won't bother with the first, it will be slaughter of the innocence.

    A good year indeed - a M8 of mine has permissions on various Turloughs near Hollymount Co. Mayo and says he hasn't seen so many mature wild broods for ages


  • #4
    grassroot1
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    Need a serious amount of rain to fill the ponds around here anyway. I have been told the river has a lot of ducks but I have not been out to check.
    I might not get out on the first though with work commitments.


  • #5
    useurowname
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    Need to take it easy on birds early on, very little water so birds are concentrated on what there is.. lakes are crazy low and forecast would suggest that water levels are going to be low until well into October.


  • #6
    cavan shooter
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    Should move the duck season to October and pull the pheasants back a month.


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  • #7
    grassroot1
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    Ah after Brexit they won't be crossing over the border to steal your birds


  • #8
    cavan shooter
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    They'd nearly be coming 20 mile for me, I'm nearly in Longford


  • #9
    Grizzly 45
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    Find generally nothing much happens until the Oct gales start setting in,but it will be intresting this year with everything so dried up alright.

    "If you want to keep someone away from your house, Just fire the shotgun through the door."

    Vice President [and former lawyer] Joe Biden Field& Stream Magazine interview Feb 2013 "



  • #10
    grassroot1
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    Any reports on how the opening went


  • #11
    cavan shooter
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    Lots of flappers. Reports up our way suggest plenty of ducks hard to get in on them.


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  • #12
    ezra_
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    I cut the lawn. I'd have washed the car, but there is a hosepipe ban.

    The waterlevel around me is very low. Nothing in the drains / ditches and the ponds are bone dry.
    Still having to put water out for the bullocks.


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