Last year was a bust-the worst yet but not a complete loss...anytime I go I get to watch different hawks and usually a bald eagle or two..various migrating "tweety birds" whom I noticed never leave the safety of the stone wall with the trees forming a kind of wall but you could still see approaching crows..the pigeons zip over especially if they hear a round let fly at an approaching crow...I was somewhat spoiled the first time I went there...no interference at all and plenty of crows but I did choose my shots(big mistake cutting my percentage way down)...the atmosphere of warm weather did cause confusion for migration which was later born out by the fact they came en masse' just as the season ended!!
The following day was back to work so by the time-if I could get back there-would have been a useless gesture...but positives are to be appreciated too: my BPS didn't seem to know what missing was...deadly accurate; I remembered a new expanded cornfield further north held quite a number of crows had I bothered to look...not shootable but if they'd come-and they did-I'd get a couple!
But where I shoot they generally come all at once. Their usual game was onesies and twosies last year-this was completely opposite! But one day the fog was atrocious so I could here a crow here and there out there but sure couldn't see them!
None the less when the fog began receding the crows began drifting down over the mighty connecticutt just like the 70s only not many...not many at all!
But I learned later it was indeed a late migration starting to pick up steam and it was November 31st...
My old style of hunting was to wait in my blind enjoying the birds coming through(tweety birds and migrating hawks) while the occasional crow would drop by for a miss or two or three or more...now there is no place for that and the crows don't really come over this one horse town any more...a stray flock might but too long in between...and crows like to drop by for a bellyful enroute to their wintering grounds...think I will just haunt what is left of the old area and wait for the occasional lone crow to drop by..good for a few and not so much travelling time ...who knows? I know I'll get some alright...
What a tricky sport indeed!
-- Edited by killer Crowalski on Thursday 5th of July 2018 03:55:30 AM
