Hello, Anybody Home?

[Greyface 50]

I registered some time ago but forgot for a while. I forget more than I remember these days.

 

As much as I hate introductions, I thought I should say something.

 

I am getting on a wee bit, have done a bit of this and that in terms of chasing and trapping and outwitting, and like this forum.

 

I'll chuck my tuppence in now and again but I'm not looking for any trouble, ye understand.

 

Thanks.

[vanman1 411]

Welcome bud

[toby63 1,236]

welcome to the site

[MK38MAGS 1]

Welcome, new myself a little while back.

[j j m 6,559]

welcome bud

[The one 8,506]

Hello and welcome mate

[wildman 527]

come on in close the door, welcome ,sit ya doon , so what kinda stuff you into mate

[Greyface 50]

Thanks guys.

 

Wildman, it might be easier to tell you what I'm not into.

 

I used to do a lot of mooching about with shotgun, terriers, running dogs, snares, nets, and all the usual stuff. Started out a 'keeper, ended up a poacher.

 

I'm into my ponies and gamefowl and collie dogs now, but don't seem to have much time to hunt so much these days. I just enjoy watching the wonders of nature now.

 

I was working on a place today, erecting an electric fence, and the skies were full of geese all day. They were feeding on stubbles , and spent the day lifting off and flying over me and dropping in to a bare tattie field next to where I was working. Hundreds of them, coming in from all directions and all flying at different heights and in different directions, with the accompanying clamour of cries.

 

The sun was shining where I was, but to the north of me the sky above the hills was black with the threat of rain. The wind was strong, and they were having to work quite hard. Some would be flying strongly and cutting across the wind, and others were doing that curved wing approach, with others suddenly tumbling about, slipping the air out of their wings and dropping quickly to land. When they were all down, and with their heads up, they looked like a small conifer wood on the horizon of the field.

 

As I worked along the fence to about three hundred yards off them, they suddenly jumped up and blackened the sky as they whirled away on the wind. Some came round and as they passed over me they changed direction radically, or climbed and banked steeply. It took me back to the old days when I would lie in frosted ditches for hours just to get a chance to get two quick shots off as they rose off their night roosts.

 

I always wonder how single geese come to be flying across the sky. With so many huge flocks about, it seems strange that one goose would find itself so far from others of its kind.

 

I also saw a flock of about sixty lapwings today. They were in the air at the same time as the geese and were completely surrounded by them at times. There was a time when lapwings were getting quite rare up here, so it was good to see so many in one place today.

 

I'm at the stage where I'm waiting for my first five posts to be approved on this forum. I wrote a long reply to a thread about breeding a line if fowl, but it hasn't appeared yet. I hope it does, because it nearly exhausted me to write it.