Feildcraft,- The Brooks Have No Footprints But The Puddles Do?

[mark williams 7,568]

Out with my G.S.P gun dog this late afternoon and noticed the puddles in the fields being visited heavily by birds but not the brooks.So i made my way over to a very slow running brook and the banks were without footprints ?

Anyways i took a seat on some logs and watched from good distance, pigeons flighting in at 4-17pm and drinking from large puddles by the farm tracks and thought, this is the place to set an ambush late afternoon with cradle decoys, (dead pigeons on wire support cradles).

Now then the brooks, i noticed, are fed by land drainage pipes and the fields have just been heavily sprayed,- i do think this is why the pigeons are avoiding the brooks to drink, for the moment.

 

 

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Edited October 13, 2015 by mark williams

[jonnie bravo 572]

Keen eye there Mark, sounds like you figured that one out. Good luck with the puddle ambush

[Rez 4,961]

You've spelt fieldcraft wrong

[bigmac 97kt 13,836]

Keen eye there Mark, sounds like you figured that one out. Good luck with the puddle ambush

He sat there for a month watching them :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

:thumbs:

[mark williams 7,568]

oops fieldcraft - red wine again

In a months time those shoots of mine will have completely changed,- who will know all about those changes and shoot accordingly, "me" .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pair of twats !

[j j m 6,626]

good luck mate

[random 659]

I've always thought the birds use puddles as they are safer using them,they see pretty much all round and are hard to get near,a brook would mask movement,sound etc,could be way off but not something you think about too much,or maybe I will now you've mentioned it and I'll lose sleep!!

 

Anyhow if you shoot them over a puddle at least you get a clearer shot and easier retrieve!

[mark williams 7,568]

That`s a great point Random and may well be right.

We`ve had no rain since about Friday (i think) and noticed pigeons flocking to the large puddles to drink, not the usual flat banks on parts of the brooks.

Steve and his brother Mick sprayed the fields to kill the growth ready for ploughing and drilling early last week and i "presumed" this spray was putting the pigeons off the brook water.

After all that i didn`t get to go through work commitments