A special breed
Wildfowlers dream of dire weather and miserable winds. The worse the conditions, the more predictable birds can become. They jink down gutters and hang downwind of a sandbank or the crumbling wreckage of a sea wall when the wind is high. Measure this against clear, mild days when the land is washy with freshwater and every pool and scrape is a magnet for ducks. Pickings are slim in the sunshine, so wildfowlers wait for the barometer to fall and the storm
