Snipe - I didn’t know that..
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shakey jake
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i dont get a chance often but if i can ill shoot them for the meal they provide, amazing birds
Same here. Could never bring myself to shoot either.
Years ago a friend and I rented a wash for a year up in Cambridge for the ducks. It was not an entirely successful venture as the ducks failed to turn up as expected ! We gave up and stood in the darkness by the wash having a natter. All of a sudden the snipe appeared. Snipe after snipe after snipe just poured in. Not in their tens, but in their hundreds. It was so dark that I could not see them, but you could hear them all around very very close. We never fired a shot, but what a memory !
I can and do as they both provide a good reward/feed . I just don't feel the need to take every shot
I have been lucky enough to pick a left& rite for a farmer friend years ago
Ma first springer spaniel bridie was class at picking them
The first bird dropped in field ease pick second dropped in or on big bank of gorse the lil dog circled in out back she was looking up at one side so a pushed me way in & a minute or two later out she came with it
Farmer had been shooting over 40 years his fist left & rite & it got him in the wood cock club
Never seen him grin so much
Ma first springer spaniel bridie was class at picking them
The first bird dropped in field ease pick second dropped in or on big bank of gorse the lil dog circled in out back she was looking up at one side so a pushed me way in & a minute or two later out she came with it
Farmer had been shooting over 40 years his fist left & rite & it got him in the wood cock club
Never seen him grin
so much
Foxyboy43
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Magical little birds, seeing a lot more of them with the thermal these nights. Mind you I have shot 46 foxes since February on their hillside feeding ground. Noticeable increase in Woodencock as well.
As I have done for twenty plus years I will just leave them all be….
As I have done for twenty plus years I will just leave them all be….
Cootmeurer
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Just a few days ago I had a large number of both snipe and woodcock in my front pasture. We had a snow along with some freezing temps, but the little headwaters of a creek (really more of a seep than a headwater) stayed thawed out. A tiny oasis of wet ground in a sea of frozen. And the little birds found it. Quite pleasant to watch.
Had the pleasure of being invited to a days Woodcock shooting in Ireland a few years back, three guns, one dog and i think IIRC six birds between us. The most memorable bird was the one i did not shoot, but often think I should have !
As an aside our host shoot over the same ground regularly and every bird he shot he sent the pin feathers somewhere for research purposes into numbers/migration patterns.
As an aside our host shoot over the same ground regularly and every bird he shot he sent the pin feathers somewhere for research purposes into numbers/migration patterns.
Smellydog
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Only ever shoot at them if out with a muzzleloader.
Rarely pursue them though now these days.
On a tangent, I don't buy the " they are suffering" thing.
They wouldn't fly all this way to suffer!
Every one I have had and woodcock has been fat. No suffering at all.
I've watched woodcock in frozen conditions, they know where to go. They know where the warm springs are, the warm marshes.
We humanize stuff to much!
Rarely pursue them though now these days.
On a tangent, I don't buy the " they are suffering" thing.
They wouldn't fly all this way to suffer!
Every one I have had and woodcock has been fat. No suffering at all.
I've watched woodcock in frozen conditions, they know where to go. They know where the warm springs are, the warm marshes.
We humanize stuff to much!
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