Stavross
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Goose meat balls, with a tomato, basil and garlic sauce and a pasta of your choice ?
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A lad that used to come out with me would squeeze the beak at the top, if he could squash it he’d say it was a young one and take it home to eat, if it was hard he’d say it was an older bird and it would be like eating an old wellie boot and take it for the dogs, I don’t know if there’s anything in that or he was just mugging me off
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I was just typing typing “ cracking shooting Dave but they might be black parrots ? “ ?
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We have a group of 6 in a small wood at the back of my mams house in Stockton on Tees, I’ve not heard of any more this far north, it would be interesting to see how far they are spread throughout the country I know someone who has a elderly relative in a care home not far from my mams and he was saying he sits and watches the parrots ? on the bird feeders on a morning, they asked the staff if he was ok because they thought he was seeing things ?
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Now you have been a few times you get to learn the land and when you are beating you can get yourself in a better position and leave the ruff for others to fall in ??
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I’ll keep my eye open for that write up ? they are not a bird I shoot very often but I will have a go at one if the opportunity arrives on another note I’ve just been invited to Lincolnshire in the new year on the geese as long as the covid restrictions are eased a bit, so fingers crossed for that ?
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Well the birds are fed and looking at where they are, we’ll be shooting 4 main drives on Saturday. Making up the rest of the day with a few small drives. Just as the light started to break through the forestry block I had two cock birds properly going at it in front of me, they don’t half make a racket in full battle mode. Much of the cover in the hard wood plantations has gone now with the cold weather and endless rain, so these birds have moved into the thick cover around the farm, beating these small areas out is a nightmare as the brambles are so thick and hide some big holes, so before yo
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Red sky in the morning “ stav’s out of bed to early and is going to get wet “ ??
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Back feeding this morning and it was looking like a glorious morning, but you guessed it, the rain has started
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Good write up ? it’s nice to see people doing a write up when things don’t go to plan, many years ago I shot a feral cat that I was convinced was a cub, at the time I thought it was the farm cat until I built up the courage to ask the farmer, I spent ages looking at it before I took the shot. It doesn’t matter how many times it goes to plan at some point it will go wrong and if everyone can learn something from that it can only be a good thing ?
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They have no road sense and didn’t follow the green cross code ?
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A couple more from this morning considering how cold it was, it didn’t seem to stop the dog walkers, I had to ask 2 to put their wild beasts back on a lead and explain myself about why there was 2 dead squizzers on the front of the bike it was good to see a few birds around the forestry pen drive as this is one of the drives that was massively over fed and the birds seemed to of wandered off from here
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Feeding this morning and I’m starting to make a dent in the feed shed ? it’s very wet up there, when I arrived the sun was just rising and it was a tropical 4 degrees, by the time I had got loaded up and over the far side of the shoot ( piggeries) the cloud/fog had come in and the temperature had dropped to just above freezing ?. The birds seem more or less where I’d expect them to be after the over feeding carry on, I’ve made another feed area in one of the drives that will hopefully put the birds up a little earlier and send them well above the trees and I’ve done away with a couple of feede
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Gun type - rifle. calibre .22lr will be your best bet for rabbits and your first venture into FAC, also if you want a sound mod you will need to apply for that along side the rifle, it’s a shame you are not around some of the nice folks on here that could give you a bit of rifle experience ?
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There’s harnesses at the bottom, connected to fall arresters, it’s a lot higher than it looks in the picture ?
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Your right there, when he looks down, he can see his feet, sadly I can not ?
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If that’s a picture of you, that’s really creepy and completely inappropriate for this young audience ?
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I had a climb up earlier and it’s a bit wild, you can feel the gantry moving, I’ll probably get sea sick? I’ll probably give it a go at the weekend, I have to dig my thermals out ?
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New bit of shooting ( sort of ) it’s my mates farm and he’s got a few foxes milling around so he’s asked if I’ll have a go at them and I get to shoot from the top of the grain dryer, exciting stuff ?
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My thoughts are with you and your family, take care buddy
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Well here we go a little summery of the day On arrival it was a lovely crisp morning with a light dusting of snow, drive number one was the “badger sets” with a couple getting up early in the drive it was the last section that produced a good flush of birds, onto the next drive “oak wood” and this one produced some good birds, not in big numbers but some quality high birds, I wasn’t expecting anything from here as I didn’t see a bird there yesterday when feeding. This is a drive that tends to attract a few of next doors birds and true to form we had a few blue backs ( that we don’t put d
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Cracking that? and a lovely picture for the album
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Yep, that’s it, hard work for a fat northern lad ?
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I’m getting to old for this sh*t ?
