Birds to roost in smaller copse

[Guest little_lloyd]

Ok, a large majoritory of my birds,...Well nearly all of them Are using the bigger wood where the realease pen is during the day to feed and dust bathe etc but come night the use the smaller copse on the edge of the shoot around 300-400 yards from home wood, alough there is no hoppers in that copse and we dont get much out of there on that drive

 

Now obvisly i want them to roost in the home wood but they just dont Has anyone else experiened anything similar or would know how to overcomr this?

[Big.T 2]

Ok, a large majoritory of my birds,...Well nearly all of them Are using the bigger wood where the realease pen is during the day to feed and dust bathe etc but come night the use the smaller copse on the edge of the shoot around 300-400 yards from home wood, alough there is no hoppers in that copse and we dont get much out of there on that drive

 

Now obvisly i want them to roost in the home wood but they just dont Has anyone else experiened anything similar or would know how to overcomr this?

 

Hi mate, dont think you can do much about it, you have obviously tried to keep them in one place but pheasants tend to stick to woodland edges and dont like to be to far from open ground. Probably feel safer dropping down from roost into open areas where there is less chance of being surprised by a fox. Another reason they spread out is they get terratorial and push each other further away. What is the other side of your bounderies? On my small shoot my neighbour has a bloody great big kale field and cant stop my birds getting there! Hope this helps. Tony

[Guest little_lloyd]

Ok, a large majoritory of my birds,...Well nearly all of them Are using the bigger wood where the realease pen is during the day to feed and dust bathe etc but come night the use the smaller copse on the edge of the shoot around 300-400 yards from home wood, alough there is no hoppers in that copse and we dont get much out of there on that drive

 

Now obvisly i want them to roost in the home wood but they just dont Has anyone else experiened anything similar or would know how to overcomr this?

 

Hi mate, dont think you can do much about it, you have obviously tried to keep them in one place but pheasants tend to stick to woodland edges and dont like to be to far from open ground. Probably feel safer dropping down from roost into open areas where there is less chance of being surprised by a fox. Another reason they spread out is they get terratorial and push each other further away. What is the other side of your bounderies? On my small shoot my neighbour has a bloody great big kale field and cant stop my birds getting there! Hope this helps. Tony

 

 

The home wood is very small and yes one side of it is small paddocks followed by a 6 acre field where the copse in question is in the corner of that feild. The other side of the wood is about 10 acres of cover kale/maize.

[Big.T 2]

Ok, a large majoritory of my birds,...Well nearly all of them Are using the bigger wood where the realease pen is during the day to feed and dust bathe etc but come night the use the smaller copse on the edge of the shoot around 300-400 yards from home wood, alough there is no hoppers in that copse and we dont get much out of there on that drive

 

Now obvisly i want them to roost in the home wood but they just dont Has anyone else experiened anything similar or would know how to overcomr this?

 

Hi mate, dont think you can do much about it, you have obviously tried to keep them in one place but pheasants tend to stick to woodland edges and dont like to be to far from open ground. Probably feel safer dropping down from roost into open areas where there is less chance of being surprised by a fox. Another reason they spread out is they get terratorial and push each other further away. What is the other side of your bounderies? On my small shoot my neighbour has a bloody great big kale field and cant stop my birds getting there! Hope this helps. Tony

 

 

The home wood is very small and yes one side of it is small paddocks followed by a 6 acre field where the copse in question is in the corner of that feild. The other side of the wood is about 10 acres of cover kale/maize.

 

 

If you have not supplied any grit by the feeders they may be wandering of to find some , usualy head for the nearest road. Birds will always head for the warmest places and we tend to do our drives by following the sun if you know what i mean, start on the western bounderies and work around to the east .

I'm sure you know all this anyway, just passing on what we find works.

[Yokel Matt 918]

Hey bud... may seem a stupid question but whats the cover / shelter like in the copse?.. could be that its a more sheltered and warmer place for them to kip. As long as your hopper educates them to be where they're supposed to be during the day i'm sure the drives will work out ok

[Guest little_lloyd]

Yes i put a load of grit in the feed!!!

 

Theres lots of brambles/ ground ivy braken in the copse but when your inthere during the day you dont see haslf as many birds as what you do when your in the bigger wood, its just night time they all head for the copse, Only my guinea fowl roost in the home wood lol

[moley 115]

Yes i put a load of grit in the feed!!!

 

Theres lots of brambles/ ground ivy braken in the copse but when your inthere during the day you dont see haslf as many birds as what you do when your in the bigger wood, its just night time they all head for the copse, Only my guinea fowl roost in the home wood lol

 

don,t matter where they roost so long as they are in the right place at the right time ,sounds good if they are in both woods during the day , you don,t want everthing in one drive

[Guest little_lloyd]

I barly go in the copse!! I went in there today for a looks and there was as many birds in the copse as ther was the home wood so im pleased really

 

But i do have a slight charlie problem ,....AGAIN

[mad max 40]

if u dont feed the wood try dogging them back they will soon get used to hearing u and a dog of some type coming and will soon be going back home as for ya fox if u dont have a gun u will need to get someone to help u but if your birds are roosting up u shouldnt get much damage now can u snare where u are.try finding a good run should be plenty of prints now the ground is wet