Thread: Game bird diary for all

Not a bad shoot this morning on the lake, calm conditions made it hard but the birds that came in decoyed well. Ended up with 5 and now that I'm home the wind has picked up, typical. Tired pups having a good rest now.

Took Bo down to the the river.

I was fishing but had the shotty on my back,when I heard the parries flying down river..dropped the rod an into them!

i,ll pass on toothin those to breasts dundee

Iight rain this morning but still no darned wind. The ahotgun is an s2 Beretta manf 1939. 82 years old. It was recovered from a wrecked Italian truck by a NZ soldier in the Libyan desert during our WW2 scrapping.

Another river retrieve for Bo.

One mallard hen tonight. Very calm and quiet but a beautiful evening.

Good morning on our local bit of big water. Some good shooting first up with some dismal shooting later in the day. Plenty of wind which was good, only problem was it blew most of the ducks to the side opposite our maimai haha.

you have a spoonie drake...and some good greenheads...careful a certain "person" will be acusing you of hiding the hens LMFAO.....

1 grey this morning, bugger all around.

Two mallards at the big pond last night but dead calm tonight.No shots fired but sure beats sitting around the tv watching politics and covid crap!

Paddock shoot last night where lots had been coming in the evening before. Damn hard trying to not stick out in the blinds when the ground is just dirt but we still managed a few that came close enough. (Don’t even need to try for parries lol). Had a good play with some JJ Lares calls I borrowed, suffice to say my CWC The Mutt is getting upgraded/replaced.

Windy with light rain,time to go home when Bo turned the headlamp on!

Spent a couple of hours out on the Kaipara last thursday. Went solo cos all my mates were busy. Decided to shoot 'green' so gave the females a pass. A pleasant 2 hrs made very special when this bird came along......Saw it about a mile out coming directly towards me. watched it the whole way. It never flapped its wings once, just glided along into the easterly, neither gaining or losing height.

Here is a closeup.....


I normally dont believe in signs or legends etc, but on opening weekend I received a text on sunday morning that one of my cousins was in Auckland ICU fighting for his life. I would have pulled the pin on duck shooting but where I was I had to wait for the tide to come back in before I could get out of there. My cousin was also one of my closest friends and a mentor. Got a text about 2 hrs after the first saying that he didnt make it. He loved the Kaipara and spent a lot of time up there.
Reading up about White Herons/Kotuku when I got back on thursday gave me pause to think.

RIP Brian

Edited to add: Only seen 2 Kotuku in 60yrs of spending time on the Kaipara. The First time was in 1993 just after my Grandmother passed away.

Great post Allgood

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They get a place in the opening day post..