Club together for the survival of our sport
“It is sad but true that membership of many wildfowling clubs is declining”
It’s hard to believe, but wildfowling clubs are a relatively modern concept. There are one or two that can trace their origins back before World War II, but most sprang up from the 1950s. What is now the Kent Wildfowling & Conservation Association (KWCA), of which my father was a founder member, was formed in 1953, as were the Fenland and the Solway. Others formed around that time include the Dorset and Holbeach clubs, in 1952, and the Fenland Wildfowlers in 1956.
“Why this sudden activity to form clubs?” you might ask. Well, the answer was Lady Tweedsmuir’s bird protection bill, which became the Protection of Birds Act 1954. Suddenly wildfowlers began to
