Swan Drives
Sir, —Apparently, in a recent battue, swans in large numbers were shot in the region of Lake Ellesmere. As a sporting event, these swan shoots never sound particularly attractive, though perhaps one under-estimates the marksmanship required to bring down these large birds, anyway with the clean kill which every shooting man hopes to achieve. Otherwise, one fears that a lot of wounded birds must get away to die a lingering death unless they can be retrieved and duly dispatched. Perhaps, too, the swan is more generally relished as a table delicacy than one has imagined; though I have yet to meet anyone who subscribed with any enthusiasm to such a gastronomic dictum. Is it that the swan is really regarded as vermin and so doomed to this periodical slaughter?—Yours, etc., M.T. July 9, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31727, 10 July 1968, Page 12
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