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- skulker but flies from furze top to furze
top. The Solway is also the great
gathering ground for geese + duck through
the winter. At some times many thousands
of geese are here. The goosanders nest
close by + bring their young to the estuary
They then desert them + go off to Holland
to moult.
Game [underline] Shooting on the flats is open to all
+ anything classes as fair game.
On the way back I discussed game bird
management with [Arthur] Duncan who is president
of the Scottish Nature Conservancy. He tells
me that with partridge rain on the chicks
seems to be fatal. According to him if
the brood is too big to be covered by their
two parents some of the chicks get pneumonia
the rest are prone to catch it from them
+ most of the brood dies. From experience
they limit the partridge clutches to 15 eggs. The
nests are located by prior observation of
the location of paired birds. He is of the
opinion also that the introduction of new
stock from central Europe was a mistake
+ served to lower the resistance of the
resident birds. He thinks 30% nest predation
is a minimum level that can be reached
with good predator control.
Pheasant yields in this part of
Marginalia: Game, Partridge mgt. [management][underlined]
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