An unofficial score from last night and the Saturday guns:
11 Teal and 2 Mallard. It goes without saying that Sandy was ecstatic that there were so many “free” birds shot.
It actually looked like it was going to be a disappointingly quiet night. Very few clouds in the sky and the sun shining behind the hills. The bottom pond had nothing to flight and 30 minutes into the butts it was probably fair to say that the main pond guns were thinking the same, “nice evening, but nay ducks”. The slow fly by of a local goose signaled the change for this as Rob, positioned on the edge of the pond at the back, suddenly began to let fly with volleys of shots. Once he had overcome the challenge of dealing with a second trigger (He had borrow a side by side for the first time), his returns dramatically improved which a final score of 4. Neil Harrison claimed a brace and Stuart Robertson also had good success. A not for the work days is to trim down the trees and bushes located around the pond as very few have good views of the pond.
The weedy field claimed at least a brace and I am sure there was some success from the top pond of the Thomson team.
It was a great finally, but as quite often is the case, nature stole the show with the most impressive sky of stars. Fantastic. For those that are interested the constellations showing above Perth at the moment can be seen below:
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Tobias.Westmeier/tools_skymap.php
Star constellations 8/10/15
I would be remiss if I didn’t report the large activity of Pheasants, particularly grouped down by the reeds at the end of the birch wood. We should be very excited for Saturday…..