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Dawn treader

Dear Freddie,

YOU ASK me for some advice on how to contact a wildfowler to take you out on to the foreshore ‘below the sea wall’, to see if he can get you under a pink-footed goose on a morning flight. Pinkfeet are among the great grey geese that migrate south from the subarctic in September, as they have since the dawn of time, gradually moving down the east and west coasts to congregate in enormous numbers off Morecambe Bay, the Ribble estuary

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