Stubble Burning

The next door farm stubble buring. Haven't seen that done for an age.

Breakfast at 'A La Hopper'

On the feed round this morning. The birds looking strong and healthy.

If Only!

Yep, if only there was a set of crowns in between those ears. Pics taken this morning. She got up eventually, the two kids were tucked away around the corner. The grass pic shows where she was laying. You can just make out the two knee imprints on the right hand side.

Chat up lines!

This could be the best chat up line ever for bird pulling. Just sprinkle a bit of the contents and knickers down! If only that simple............

You may recognise this from adverts in the shooting mags and after a bit of mulling over and our birds seen with ruck sacks departing to all corners I have taken the plunge and received the 'Bird Puller' in the post today.

If it does what it says on the tin then bloody good news. Must admit its does smell tasty. Will update the blog with the results in due course.

Looking Good

Whilst out stalking on Monday morning came across a few more Frenchmen, no bucks unfortunately. Apparently a 40 plus covey was spotted on one of our fields so it's fingers crossed that they linger around for our first shoot. Plus some more feed hoppers to place this coming weekend should help.

We are not having any luck on the fox front at all. The one's that we do come across are lamp shy and depart at a rapid pace. We will have to ambush those to stand any chance of getting a shot off unless someone would like to donate a thermal imaging camera to a good cause!

Touch wood the luck will change one night as we have not been this barren at all. Either we made such a good job of controlling them earlier in the year or the little darlings are not going out to play until real stupid o'clock. I suspect that stupid o'clock is the factor. An all nighter beckons.

Youtube video

Not in the UK but still avid viewing if not seen two bucks fight.

Showing promise

Here we have a picture with a couple of Frenchmen which was taken up by the Ring of Tree's. The green shoots is the mustard cover strip beginning to show through, in six weeks time hopefully it will be of a good height to drive the birds out of as this drive has the makings to be really challenging to the guns.
Prior to the photo taken we managed to get out at least 6 more feed hoppers with straw rides. Another 4 to 5 to go then that job task is done.
With less than 6 weeks to go before the first shoot I think we are on top of things with just a few smaller jobs to be carried out.