The hundredth bird

Craig reports that the 100th bird of the season was taken at 4pm this afternoon, at which point hunting ceased.

Some stats:

"With our wing tagging this year, we know we ended up with about 15% of birds of two years old or more, and about 15% untagged one year olds so can guess that most of those are wild bred from our previous releases.

It is addictive, and we are now talking about funding ourselves a leg banding program to see if we can get info back on how far the birds are spreading."  

I cannot emphasise enough how rewarding it is to release birds. We know that its bolstering the wild population as well as offering world class opportunity. I'm convinced that bird releasing is the way of the future, including waterfowl. (In comparison to pheasants, raising ducklings is a doddle).

100, a nice number to finish on.

Craig's final bird of 2012