Shooting sports do bring benefits
Could I put forward a balanced opinion to the letter by Julian Kirk re 'shooting season has begun,'
Firstly, I would like to point out I know Julian Kirk and his family and they are very honest and hardworking farmers and Julian has every right to express his opinion on shooting sports.
I shoot and fish and have many friends and colleagues that do also, I am also a member of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust and have in the last two years given over most of my land in wildlife habitat, creating ponds, building and erecting owl boxes and planting hedgerows and native trees.
Through the long dry summer months I had hares, roe deer, foxes and hundreds of birds coming to drink.
As you can imagine, this has cost me thousands of pounds.
The only help I had was from Norfolk County Council's Ed Stocker ecologist. King's Lynn Borough and my parish council were unhelpful and believe it or not I, had to have full planning consent.
Could I also point out, that as a by product of game keepers feeding pheasants etc throughout the winter months when natural feed is limited, many hundreds of song birds and other species survive as a direct result of this practice,
C READ
Wisbech
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