Southerly keeps ducks in sights
Conditions were nearperfect for the opening weekend of the Duck Shooting Season. A fresh southerly wind that kept the majority of the human population indoors kept the fowl moving, with good bags reported from most corners of the Waimarino. This year's opening weather was better than last year's and another excellent evening shoot on Sunday was reported. Limits for paradise ducks were reached, while fewer limits were reported on Canada, grey and mallard. Observers say this year's bird popu-
lation was generally more wary, with large numbers holed up in hiding places and out of site of the hunters' guns. Editor's note: there is no truth in the rumour that the Bulletin published the date for the season 's opening day as 5 May so that hunters would leave off shooting ducks for an extra four days (last week's Bulletin story contained a misprint). In fact it could be argued that we were on the side of the hunters by trying to fool the ducks into thinking they had four more days to hide (that's assuming ducks read the Bulletin !)
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 484, 4 May 1993, Page 1
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