Well, after having torrential rain for the first 4 1/2 months of the year, its finally started to brighten a little, and now nly raining in the afternoon at the moment.
the crows are totally out of sorts, and didnt nest untill the middle of April, so the young have only started to fly last week, and due to most fields not being sown, plus the cold ensuring the ceops hardly grew at all, and its only becoming noticeable that crops are in the ground this week, with 4" of growth in just 4 days
Went shooting the other day, and took 2 buddies with me, and we each only got 5 birds (so a total of 15 birds, 5 crow and 10 pigeon) and that from 03:00 until 10:00
the birds appear not to be particularly interested in the crops, or even in the decoys, and seem very lethargic in their flying too.
now the crops are getting to big to shoot over (I.e., if you tread n shoots, they will soon be too big to recover and break instead), so have only 2 fields left that I can still shoot, and that not for Much more.
Now it will be waiting time until the crops are ready, or they cut grass for silage.
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If it moves and is legal but also moral, SHOOT IT !!
Yeah is been a hell of a year hear too. I has rained every weekend for months. I'm going looney! I haven't even been able to fish cause the river has been up, rollin and muddy. life has been grim this year.
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A SUPER 90 and a crow in range, life is good. A good sandwich and bag of M&Ms doesnt hurt either.
I'm going to fish and shoot every day the sun shines next year, and tell the wife I got a "rain check" for this one. One thing that makes the rainy weekends bearable is reloading all the empty ammo cases and hulls you can get. Another thing is being married to a beautiful woman, like I've been for 40 yrs. Just sayin'...
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"When you have shot one bird flying, you have shot all bird's flying. ...the sensation is the same, and the last one is as good as the first." E. Hemingway "Fathers and Sons"
At the moment here is too much food here now. Due to rain and wind, the wheat, barley, and oats, have still not been harvested, and many (almost all) fields have wind and rain damage where the crop has been flattened, so they are doing lots of damage. But 1-3 shots and they are one to another field
heres two fields that the farmer forgot o tell me he had p,abetted, they are 8 miles from me and well hidden, and he said at the beginning of the year he wasn't planning on planting them
