Back up at the shoot

[Dervburner 2,549]

47 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Feeding this morning in preparation for Saturday, I took the thermal with me as I wanted to see what was about to put a bit of a plan together with the shoot captain as we are fast approaching the end of the season so we need to make the best of what we have left, I have got 2 drives that still have a lot of birds in for this time of year and they are Gordon’s pen and the piggeries ( tree side ) and another 2 that are not to bad, forestry pen and piggeries ( ruff side ) so if we do theses 4 and add in a couple of small ruff patches we could potentially have a good day, this time in the season if we do a 30 bird day I’ll be happy, there’s definitely enough birds to do this but we’ll see if the shooting ability is up to the job on Saturday, there’s a lot of deer traffic in and around the piggeries but I didn’t see any today, with a bit of luck over the coming weeks me and the deer magnet (FH) will get a couple of days on them, hopefully a couple of calm, sunny days

Hope you have a good one Stav, nice pictures too

[Stavross 15,353]

38 minutes ago, Dervburner said:

Hope you have a good one Stav, nice pictures too

It was lovely up there today, clear blue sky and a little bit of heat in the sun, I keep checking the weather for Saturday hoping for a good day, I don’t know why because it will be what it will be and we’ll be there whatever the weather 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I noticed today the squirrels are pairing up. The ones I saw were in pairs!

[BenBhoy 4,706]

2 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

I noticed today the squirrels are pairing up. The ones I saw were in pairs!

I saw some greys of another kind pairing up today. Perdix. Pretty early, but from the racket they making I'd say the pair wanted last years youngsters to give them some space! 

[Dervburner 2,549]

I don’t see many English (perdix) these days, but it’s always good to see them when I do

[BenBhoy 4,706]

13 minutes ago, Dervburner said:

I don’t see many English (perdix) these days, but it’s always good to see them when I do

We're lucky - we had a wild pair on farm. I've taken it upon myself to help them. Combo of foxing, running 3 larsens in spring, not mowing right to hedge & cutting later and supplementary feeding. Doing count last autumn and we now have regular 6 birds with extras appearing during winter. Every little helps! 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I miss the sound of grey partridge.  

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Nice to see lovely blue skies I'm busy polishing my magnet at the minute and hopefully grass a few

[BenBhoy 4,706]

4 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

I'm busy polishing my magnet

You'll go blind... 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

2 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

I saw some greys of another kind pairing up today. Perdix. Pretty early, but from the racket they making I'd say the pair wanted last years youngsters to give them some space! 

Grey partridge always start pairing up in  January , I'm lucky one of my farms has about 5 covies on it at present where I've hammered the foxes and corvids but it's a never ending battle with the corvids.

[Stavross 15,353]

7 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Nice to see lovely blue skies I'm busy polishing my magnet at the minute and hopefully grass a few

Is that a euphemism

[Stavross 15,353]

Well, all set for tomorrow, missus just needs to iron my shirt, feet up and chill out before I have to get up at daft o’clock

[si brown 8,486]

9 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Well, all set for tomorrow, missus just needs to iron my shirt, feet up and chill out before I have to get up at daft o’clock

That pie looks ace

have a good day

[Sausagedog 7,381]

Have a good day tomorrow.  I hope you all have a good laugh or two. 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

1 hour ago, Stavross said:

Well, all set for tomorrow, missus just needs to iron my shirt, feet up and chill out before I have to get up at daft o’clock

What pie is it mate , looks lovely