Thread: gooses

Most of the geese in our area seemed to have honed in on our harvested pea paddock, 300 + for the last few days, with more scattered over another couple paddocks. Am waiting for son and mate to turn up for a decent shoot, but I've got to get the pea straw bales out and the paddock disced ready for autumn sown crop. Nine jet boats headed up the river about lunchtime and sent the geese every which way - which was a good thing cos they usually roost up in full view of the paddock. Me thoughts to meself, " them boats have got to come back down, will stir up the geese again" Dropped the decoys out under cover of the bale trailer, moved one of the layout blinds, and carried on moving bales. Knocked off at 5.45 and came back to grab a shotgun and some ammo. Was only away for 15 minutes and bugger me, when I got back there was already about 200 all around the decoys. So I walked in to the paddock, sending all the geese back to the river in full view - bugger! Climbed into the layout blind with a couple boxes of ammo and a good book, thinking I'd have to wait a while. Never started the book, the geese started to drift back in in small mobs and I finished with 29 geese on the deck and a couple more that decided they didn't want to play dead and ran away. Might go back tomorrow morning cos theres about 300 pissed off geese waiting for a feed, and they might just come in in the morning. And the morning light will be so much better - had to try and pluck a number of geese out of the evening sun, very difficult to see, let alone shoot.