How many of you spend your summer, like me, flyfishing and then switch to wildfowling for the winter.

If you do, then you might find this wee video, produced by ESAWC, to be of interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRJo48-I6ZA

Wild fowling?

Is that an English 'poofta' way of saying you shoot game birds?

I think it's specific to wildfowl Joey, for example geese, ducks etc. Whereas game birds are traditionally grouse, pheasant, partridge etc.

looks good. how would i be able to get involved in that?

burhan

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I used to do a lot, more so in my youth when I'd happily be standing out on the mud somewhere up from the Severn Bridge with a bit of snow in the wind on the off chance of a shot. So cold that I had to pour coffee over my hands to get the circulation back.

These days I'm softer but still enjoy inland flighting as it is like sewin fishing and gets your senses on edge straining to hear the duck going over and then looking for the dark shapes coming in over the trees hoping I can get the gun up quickly enough before the chance has gone.

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Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

I 'was' a keen fowler,but have moved over to watching.just as much fun,I still swing my arm at the geese. but glad to just hear their wild call.
They still taste great.

Jim

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Wildfowl = Waterfowl.

Thanks Stuart.

I know what you mean Jim, we had 50 greylag go over the house a few days ago and hearing their calling made my day. It ranks with hearing the curlew in Spring as the most evocative bird call.

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“There is no more lovely country than Monmouthshire in early spring. Nowhere do the larks sing quite so passionately, as if somehow inspired by the Welsh themselves. There is a blackbird on every thorn and a cock chaffinch, a twink as they call him there, on every bush...... It moved me profoundly. I had been spared to see another spring, and I thank God for it.”

Oliver Kite
“A Spring Day on the Usk”
A Fisherman’s Diary

I'm off to Orkney in a month's time to make inroads into their wildfowl. It used to be a Mecca for some extraordinary duck shooting, but now it's the major greylag wintering site. In my youth (20 - 40) up there, we used to get so excited by the chance at a goose, now you have to work hard to get away from them. Strange days!

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