I'm rather concerned about your views on the breeding of birds for annual shoots, I have lived in Notts country side for all of my life (I am 83) & witnessed many changes, I feel that the NT is going in the wrong direction. I have seen feeding stations for the game birds which attracts other wild life, I have seen fields planted with sun flower & other wild flower seeds which attracted about 200 + small birds inc, buntings, linnets, goldfinches,& once a snow bunting. at post code No' Ng 23 without these facilities there wouldn't be the numbers I have seen for at least 3 years in early 2020s I have since moved & not able to visit the area again. On another point I have recently read where a certain Mr Chris. Packham as decided to become a vegan which in it's self is ok, but I'm a bit concerned about his influance on your organisation [his views on fox hunting] I have witnessed at first hand the damage that they do, My father had a lot of hens & supplied about 250 dozen eggs per week(free range in the 1940s fifties & sixties) a fox broke in to one of the sheds & killed about 50 laying hens so you Know at first hand what thDamage they do & without the feeding stations for tGame birds. Perhaps Mr Packham would all fields tto be used for growing crops for vegies,It's nearly impossible to grow enough food to feed the world on veg alone. Yours & other organisations should be careful who your bedfellows are, I can't say I'm going to cancel my subs because at my age it isn't going to make a lot of difference Malcolm
