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should be peak pigeon shooting time on the estate where I work, but as yet it isn’t. The harvest is all but over and there is plenty of food scattered around for woodies to forage, but there still aren’t the number of birds that there should be, though the numbers are increasing. I know from social media that big bags are being shot, so I don’t think there has been a national collapse in the population. It’s anybody’s guess as to why they’re not in my area, but I feel they’ll turn up at some