Ha-ha - how the other half lives. The guys I go out with (they shoot the pheasants - I shoot them... with the camera) put out
300 birds in October, and that is to see them through the
whole season until end of January. However, travel and other covid restrictions mean they have not been out since early December and have abandoned the season. I'm guessing their birds will just be left to their own devices now.
That’s how it should be! Family and friends shoots.
They’re not keepers now really. Neighbourhood is full of Wood pigeons Moles, stoats, rats and Grey Squirrels, they don’t know how to control them. They wouldn’t know a Putang from a Duffus, never mind Talplex.
I used to do a lot of pest control with traps nets and ferrets, father in law used to run about 20-30 ferrets when he was alive, I used to have half a dozen. Still have the rat catchers dog though, semi retired now, she could do a thousand rats a month, in her prime and moles too!
It’s like a war zone here when the drives are nearby my patch- all the clued up Pheasywigs pile onto our land, where they know they’re safe, soon as dusk comes, back into the Pine trees at the beck side.