Hunting for geese and ducks on the Orkney Islands
Rediscovering the Orkney Islands during the autumn and winter season will give many hunters the opportunity to have fun by engaging in the rewarding and rich hunt for ducks, geese, plovers and snipe. Incredible amount of game, wild and impetuous scenarios, symbiosis with uncontaminated nature give this hunting trip a pinch of adventurous magic.
Those offered by the Orkney Islands are wild and uncontaminated scenarios, ideal spaces on which hunting expeditions can take place. A precious archipelago nestled in the North Sea, it is about 15 km from the Scottish coast and around a hundred more or less large islands, for the most part uninhabited, make up it. Only twenty, the largest, count urban centers and small human agglomerations, in which a life is led in perfect symbiosis with the bursting local nature.
The southern area of the archipelago was frequented since the early nineteenth century mainly by seal hunters and whalers, and the hunting tourist vocation of the territory does not seem to want to diminish even today.
In fact, there are many hunters who organize hunting trips in this suggestive and unforgettable strip of land. The challenge against the animal is proposed again in extreme and stimulating conditions, giving great satisfaction to the hunter who will be able to enjoy more than suggestive and unique scenarios that will make this an incredible and unforgettable adventure.
The hunt that most often develops on these islands is that of geese and ducks and the methods are always similar and successful. Normally, a fun duck hunt starts in the early morning. The hunter will be stationed in previously wisely organized huts, near ponds, near the sea or in areas not far from natural marshes. Among the species most likely to be encountered we remember the wigeons, the mallards, the teals and in more rare cases the pintail and the four-eyed.
Also during the first morning it will be possible to inaugurate the poop on the geese which, unlike that on the ducks, develops in the stubble, in common flooded grass fields or more often in swamps. The morning hunt for ducks and geese continues until they have finished their daily morning movement.
On average, each hunter manages to earn from twenty to thirty ducks and / or geese, but if the weather conditions favor the adventurers and the morning proves to be particularly windy, it will not be difficult to increase the quantity, reaching even fifty heads per hunter.
But the fun doesn't end now. After a good breakfast you can continue with a satisfying hunt for plovers with the help of molds and calls. A privileged territory are the wet grass fields, while the weather conditions that most favor the hunter are those already described of sun and abundant wind, meteorological situations that are not rare for the Orkney Islands. In these circumstances, each hunter will be able to take home about thirty or forty head each.
Preferably, the morning can be used to hunt wild geese, whose natural habitat is usually represented by damp fields and stubble. It will not be uncommon in this context to have the opportunity to hunt ducks and plovers, making the hunting morning even more lively if possible.
Are you tired already? The surprises offered by Orkney do not end here. Snipes can be hunted near swamps, a particularly common species in these areas.
The high concentration of game, the impetuous and wild territories give the hunt a spirit and emotions that can hardly be found elsewhere.
Excellent time to organize a trip of this kind is the month of October, November, December and January.