Thread: Game bird diary for all

Clear hot day today, ducks trading high all day. But we limited on both mallies and parries.... 147 birds all up. Had them piling in tonight but sat back with a few beers and let them land. Second season on our new pond. Pretty happy.

74 ducks in total . Pulled stumps at noon , big BBQ and beers was a great day , mallards decoyed well considering the fine weather . Pot licker went real good on the retrieves . Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Ellsmere Munsey?

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Ellsmere Munsey?

Dairy farm Irrigation pond .

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Dairy farm Irrigation pond .

Holy crap a pond that size would flood this place

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Holy crap a pond that size would flood this place

They get bigger the one I shot last year was 3 hecters . Was too big

Challenging day at Ellesmere today. Skies clear this morning and the birds were flying high and very quickly gun shy. I spent way too long calling birds in and by the time I made a grab for the gun my mate had missed them all with his gun and they were off. Still he managed to bag two parries this morning before we retired for a couple of hours when things got quiet. Returned late afternoon and bowled a mallard and swan each.

I suspect more birds were into the ponds on the lakeside farms as there were some impressive volleys coming from them. I'm stoked with my humble haul. Didn't miss much that I shot at. Probably should have shot at a few more that were probably in range, but I err on the safe side. Happy that I whistled the swans in from a reasonable distance and my expensive parrie caller performed admirably.

One mallard


Quick look at river one pukeko


Have this dab chick bobbing around pond

My bitch spronking through the rough...



Saw two roosters in the morning but to have shot them would have made me a trespasser...went back again in the afternoon...no birds...the guys around here told me they had better night shoots than morning shoots...heard some pretty serious volleys across from the river...sent a gaggle of greylags down stream into the line of fire of some guys on the riverbed...even with no birds, so neat to be out with gun and dogs...a ranger stopped by...no outing for us today...housework in the morning and visitors soon to arrive...dont they realise what day it is today ....

53 mallards and 12 parries today for a total of 155 mallards and 40 parries for the weekend.

Wind was forecast to turn to southerly so we decided a later afternoon shoot was in order. Our new maimai was occupied so we wandered along and set up in another empty one. The next maimai along had a group of guys with a big spread and calling up a storm so the birds were heading into them, though most were flying pretty high and straight.

I did manage to whistle another swan over for a dose of high speed steel to a load hails of hurrah from the next maimai. I quickly exited and went for the retrieve and quickly noticed that the head was up and it was starting to paddle so I quickened the pace a bit. It was between me and the next maimai so I couldn't send a finishing shot off. Apparently in the noise I was making I missed the call of 'run Forest, run" from the neighbours before I got to a spot where I could send off a safer finishing shot.

There was not a great deal of other action until we managed to call in three mallards and had them in the perfect spot only for my mate to miss with four shots and me not to send any steel there way due to technical difficulties. For some reason my thumb couldn't find the safety to the right of the action, then the same thumb couldn't find the safety on the tang, then I finally found the flippin' safety just behind the trigger. The call from the neighbours at this effort was 'What are you doing?", just before one of the birds did a low fly pass on their maimai where it was nailed.

I did manage to get another swan to fly our way but part way over was sky busted by another crew before flying over another maimai where it was nailed. He didn't collect it so we grabbed it on the way out. Swan casserole will be on the menu again shortly.

From the description Tussock that pond looks bloody low too.

We had another fine boring day at no.1 with four ducks coming in and only one dropped


Night shoot moved to another half empty pond



With cold barrels but good times




3 mallards,2pukekos,2 maggies,a few plovers and a bloody expensive rabbit for this opening weekend.

Our new pond (on the oreiti near dipton southland) with my new spread looked great. everything that looked came in. We probably only missed 6 ducks all day. Tally was 49 mallards for sat. 17 mallards and 2 parries for sun. we are going to have another shoot this morning and then we are going up to my place for some more shooting. No photos too busy having great time. Only reason for the right up is coz i cant sleep.