A bit of hit and miss
It is not rough weather that makes good wildfowling, though weather does play its part, hot or cold, dry or wet, but it is more dependent on hardship caused through weather than the actual conditions. Duck are driven away by frost but they are more seriously driven away by drought. After frost they return, but after drought they may not return again in numbers for years.
Cold does not necessarily become inseparable from wildfowling. It is more pleasant to shoot without pain, though the fowler has become regarded as a sufferer from the elements. A real wildfowler enjoys his shooting in the heat of August just as well as in the frosts of Tanuary.
Summer wildfowl have different habits in winter. New-fledged, the broods of duck go less cautiously about under the cover of night.
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