Wildfowling

Wildfowling is the pursuit of wild fowl in wild places. In Britain it is traditionally carried on below the sea wall on the coastal marshes, foreshores and estuaries.

Of all country sports it is the most arduous and the most romantic and it has hundreds of years of tradition. It takes the dedicated fowler out to windswept and wonderful wildernesses long before dawn on a winter morning and, if he is very lucky, he may return with a goose or a duck for the table. With only a gundog for company, the wildfowler experiences a communion with nature that is well nigh impossible in any other setting. At the end of the flight he measures success not by the size of his bag but by the closeness of his encounter with the wild birds of the shore.

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Wildfowling is a sport that is regulated by self-discipline, the true fowler respecting his quarry and adhering voluntarily to a strict code of ethics that ensure his hunting has no detrimental effect on the sustainable populations of ducks and geese. He harvests a naturally produced surplus.

His wildfowl recognition skills and knowledge of winds, moons and tides are much more important than his skill with a shotgun.