Yesterday Wade and I headed out to "The Farm" in NE Oregon. This place is huge with tens of thousands of irrigation circles and hundreds of thousands of dairy & beef cattle. There are LOTS of pigeons and starlings, probably in the multiple millions. We normally concentrate on starlings and 300-500 in a winter day isn't abnormal. Today, though, was my first day here with my Impact so we went to a different part of the farm with fewer cattle and concentrated on pigeons. The video camera mount works OK but it's slow to turn on, program for macro and sight the birds in the viewfinder. I'll be building a SideShot type action camera system soon so that problem should go away. We ended up with over 120 pigeons and a handful of starlings and sparrows. Wade had the longest shot of 122 yards with the 5-7mph wind quartering away. I'm really liking the Athlon Midas TAC scope. The concrete walls the pigeons are sitting on are sileage pit walls, double concrete walls in an "A" provide with the top part about 18" wide and open. The pigeons roost and nest at the bottom because it's good shelter. When they fall they usually fill into these areas where we can't get to them.
Here's a little video of the first 1/2 hour or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwgaNahfFo&t=204s
We were able to collect 43 of the dead birds.
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Here's a little video of the first 1/2 hour or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwgaNahfFo&t=204s
We were able to collect 43 of the dead birds.