DUCK SHOOTING AT LAKE ELLESMERE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21090, 15 February 1934, Page 7

DUCK SHOOTING AT LAKE ELLESMERE

TO THK r.UITOK Or THE FUSS. Sir. —ln Saturday's edition of "The j Press" I noticed that some sportsImen are complaining that aeroplanes [flying over a very small portion of [Lake Ellesmere are disturbing the ducks and causing them to depart to other places for safety. It is just another case of barking up the wrong tree. I have lived on tiic shore of the lake all my life, and have watched with interest, anu at times alarm, the changes that have taken place in the habits of the game on the lake. Things have changed rapidly this last few years, and now they are at express speed. First, came the motor-car. and Wo all know what that has meant to the ducks: then this last few years we have the spectacle of 10 or a dozen guns lining up in a row and stretching more than half a mile out in the lake, banging away at the swans—not during the week-end alone, but practically every day of the week during the shooting season. On top of this we have motor-boats chasing the game up and down the lake. Twenty years ago. one would seldom see a gun on the north side of the lake from one week-end to another, excepting on rough days. I do not happen to know Squad-ron-Leader J. L. Findlay, but 1 think it most unfair to blame the Air Force, knowing the good work it is doing for our country. The shooting was being over-done and getting poor before ever the aeroplanes started their practices.—Yours, etc.. LAKE FLATTER. February 12, 1934.