Hunting solution

As the "hunting season" is about to assail our ear drums and our sensibilities once more I have been inspired by the perfect, simple solution.

Those opposed to the hunting are overwhelmingly of this persuasion because of the wholesale depredations caused to migratory birds and the effects this has on ecologies far beyond Malta's shores. The hunting fraternity continuously plead that they are not responsible for this and that only the occasional passing buzzard or flamingo gets shot by mistake. Thus the arguments rage and neither side listens to the other! So we come to my solution - oh so simple and guaranteed to please everyone, well at least those who speak and write the truth. Let us move our "hunting" months outside the times of maximum migration - told you it was simple!

If hunters only want quail and turtle doves that is what they will get and the rest of us can enjoy the heart easing sight of birds soaring overhead on their way north or south.

Try not to dismiss me as "a foreigner"; those of us who choose to live here care deeply about the place or we would not have invested here.