Thread: Game bird diary for all

I don't call parries ducks, but yes I will still put some time in to them until their season ends, now I know they are there again. Saw a couple of Parries in the same spot this evening.

Mate and I downed one tonight and the good old dog delivered the goods.

Breasted it for my mate too take home,he was wrapped to see the first ever duck fall out of the sky.

jet pohangina river

my opening day spread pretty happy with the home built vortex made from a windscreen wiper motor and some scrap steel

Originally Posted by prattpoint

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jet pohangina river

are those goose shells you,ve converted to oversize parries prattpoint ??
look great if sodid you not have a chair??

Yeah I bought two dozen super magnum goose shells of trade me this year painted half as mallards and half as parries they are bigger than swan decoys was worried they were too big but seem to work well, I can carry them all myself and they are fast to set up,

Good day in the forestry even after a rabid spaniel had a go at my dog and left him bleeding and limping.

Originally Posted by Wildman

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Good day in the forestry even after a rabid spaniel had a go at my dog and left him bleeding and limping.

been there had one try to towel my dog up everytime he tryed to get back in the maimai, with a retrieve, a year or two back.
never known a springer to be so aggresive
quail gave me the slip apart from a single today. didnt even shoot at it
did ofcourse see a nice pheasant a day late and a rogueish disregard for the rules short

sou west front forcast for later today.
how late is anybodies guess probably after dark

Originally Posted by gsp follower

sou west front forcast for later today.
how late is anybodies guess probably after dark

yr website has it from 6pm-midnight Weather forecast for Lake Ellesmere (New Zealand)

Thanks Stugs! I have been trying to find a decent site for weather at the large pond for a while now.
It's about time we got a few weeks of southerlies I reckon, the way it is going all the ducks will forget to fly if this weather keeps up.

Yep, I've been watching it too, missed the southerly the other week, had relatives visiting.

Originally Posted by C404

Thanks Stugs! I have been trying to find a decent site for weather at the large pond for a while now.
It's about time we got a few weeks of southerlies I reckon, the way it is going all the ducks will forget to fly if this weather keeps up.

+1 on the site . its the shiss . gutted finished work early too was out in Lincoln .Had deks, NO GUN !

@Munsey, that would be a real pain...

Mallards finished for me, really rough conditions at the big pond.


Nothing up there tonight so we went to the green pond and watched the gum trees sway.


Not a bird seen apart from some magpies that took a load of steel into there roosting position in the gum trees.

Great times with family and friends and the mutt .................bring on next year!!

Still can shoot parries here till the 12th july but road trip on the way. Say hi if ya see the forum decal on the ute