Foam on the range
“A brief scan revealed two geese heading our way. They were surprisingly high for Canadas but the calls were unmistakable”
In the dog days of summer, the start of the wildfowling season always feels like it is taking ages to come around, then all of a sudden the nights start drawing in and the fowling grapevine begins to buzz with reports of migratory geese flying across the sky.
Despite the first birds often being heard in August, the early season can be a difficult time of year to get under quarry as migrant species tend not to have arrived on our shores in significant numbers. This makes it a perfect time to pursue some of our resident fowl, such as the Canada. Though it is often overlooked by other fowlers, I am a big fan of this species of geese, probably due to my childhood obsession with
