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Geese
The following extract by the Revd. Daniels published in 1812 gives a detailed account of goose rearing in the Fens and in France...
Jun 135 min read
My Identity - Home is where the curlews cry.
What of my identity? It is interwoven between marsh, fen and town but the world changes. My roots and ancestry is firmly in the Fens....
Jan 82 min read
Sidebar - The Rearing of Geese in all its Cruelty
Every so often I will publish material that did not make the script of “Marsh Fen and Town”. The following published in 1801 [i] is an...
Sep 1, 20246 min read
From Marsh to Fen and Field - Stuart Hay
“There is no habitat in Lincolnshire which can truly be described as natural unless it be the sandy and muddy foreshores of the coast....
Aug 9, 20247 min read
Wildfowlers Observations, Tails and Tall Stories Part 6
Wildfowlers are usually very clever people. They learn their craft from others and by observation. Many have self-taught skills to make...
Jun 21, 20248 min read
Wildfowlers Observations, Tails and Tall Stories - Part 2
Anyone visiting Ken Burton's house would turn into a driveway made up of stone and broken clay pigeons that had been picked up from the...
Jun 7, 20247 min read
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