Orkney odyssey
just as the wild goose has an irresistible urge to migrate south when the temperature drops and the days shorten at their breeding grounds, so a dedicated band of hunters are drawn in the opposite direction to engage the clamouring skeins on their wintering feeding grounds. So it was in early November, when the ‘Essex Boys’ headed north for our annual three-day goose hunt with Steve Rogers of Orkney Shooting Holidays.
The Orkney Isles are a wildfowler’s dream, with farms and landscapes unchanged for decades, the stresses and strains of modern life having
