Thread: Game bird diary for all

Got a text last night from a farmer up the road complaining about the pigeons. Went and had a look...guess I'd better get into them just waiting till 10 for the dog walkers to finish

Originally Posted by jakewire

A good opener then Mr Dundee.

Good times with mates and one of my sons and Seans new dog Ace, only three birds down but the haul at the pub was pretty good.

Mate got this male spoony, first time seeing a male one. At first I thought something had escaped from the aviary at the botanical gardens.

bloody cool colours

good to hear every one had a good weekend .I had a good weekend with my lab,a mate and her 2 lab's,she was very happy for her young dog getting retrieve a sawn the wee girl is only about 20 kg.ended up with 3 mallrds 16 parries and 2 sawns,having 20 odd sawn's sitting on the dam all the time did not help

2 greys
3 parries
1 pheasant (!)
1 rabbit
1 great day out

Not sure what was going on around the Firth but I have never seen so many Parries around. Airborne mobs of 30-40 birds. I wonder if it is because of all of the storm effected maze that is still standing in the Waikato area, some of it still in a couple feet of water.

Made it fun for us. We limited out on parries plus 10 mallards for the opening morning. Would rate in the top 3 opening weekends for the last ten years. I have sore ribs from all the laughter that went on during the day

I had a good weekend, pretty quiet though. Nothing was landing on, or coming even close to our pond but stalked a few other ponds on the farm during the day. Tally was 3 mallards and a parrie.

Did a walk on opening morning targeting some pheasants, instead we managed to land a single duck. For a bonus, I got the young ones to pluck it and get their hands bloody during the autopsy procedure.

Originally Posted by Petros_mk

Did a walk on opening morning targeting some pheasants, instead we managed to land a single duck. For a bonus, I got the young ones to pluck it and get their hands bloody during the autopsy procedure.

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why dat boy taking off dat birds clothes teacher

rats with wings

i need to go door knocking around clevedon i think

Originally Posted by Dynastar27

i need to go door knocking around clevedon i think

Jeez I can see the papers now. "arrested man claims it was all a mistake, he says he was only there to ask permission and when no one answered the front door he went around the back to see if someone was in the garden shed". He also said "the cannabis wasn't his and he didn't know how he got in the house". Ha ha ha ha

Originally Posted by gsp follower

why dat boy taking off dat birds clothes teacher

as long as dat da only bird i see him takin da clothes off of at his age laddie!

Just talking to a cousins hubby-he like me didnt go out ,but has been told a party shooting in the grey river bed on the atarua side tallied out at 116 birds for all day saturday /am sunday. given the westcoaast limit is 15 birds per shooter per day this is fairly well up there .BTW dont know how many in the party ???6
all my other reports have been 3-6birds predominantly parries and commonly it was bloody hard yakka to secure them.
Ive not heard anything about how the lagoon at lake brunner shot but if anyone can enlighten would be much pleased(ancestral shooting ground)

Originally Posted by Dynastar27

rats with wings

i need to go door knocking around clevedon i think

Only the towny pigeons deserves that title. Man when you get onto them they are some of the hardest game birds to connect with, parallel with grouses so I've been told by those who are lucky enough to have shot both.
Got skunked on Sunday to warm and hot with no wind. Looks like the guy had just sprayed off his grass to kill off the dandelions.
I'll give it two weeks and a bit of rain and it will be all on
I have found you need a rest of around ten days between shooting for them to forget that that place is dangerous.

Tried a new location tonight and the birds won.

Had my bike covered and sitting at this location.

7 birds were seen but nothing close for a shot.I had mallards answer my calling and at 1815 I shifted possie to find them sitting on another pond 500 metres away where my heifers are.

Some average opening weekends then. We were down on previous years. Only 37 mallards and an eel for two days. Still three months to go. There will be more swat ups.