The Norfolk Broads are an important wetland nature reserve, albeit largely a man made product created by peat digging over the centuries. The following account of a shoot on Hickling Broad in 1934 from the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalist Society may appear alarming.
Nowadays a little over 500,000 pinkfeet geese are thought to overwinter in the UK. Certainly where I live in Northumberland I see my fair share from flocks of a few dozen to many hundreds flying over at times. However, this was not always the case and Kenzie Thorpe shared the following figures in May 1964
