okay, definitely projecting / reading too much into it, but. thinking abt rusty lake: hotel, specifically ms pheasant's room. the little puppet show, right? the back and forth between them, until the lady burns the man. clearly this is some sort of paradise parallel
Seeing people shoot raptors in other countries is fucking wild to me because we have a whole system of super strict laws governing how you can handle an individual FEATHER off of an eagle, and it doesn't have to even be a dead eagle. One can molt and you can find it on the ground and if you're caught with it the warden will fuck your entire life. What do you mean people are out there shooting them to protect a fucking pheasant. A pheasant??? That thing I have to avoid running over approximately 459 times any time I leave a major highway???
Portraits of Beaters and Pickers at a Surrey pheasant shoot, Surrey UK.
Pickers often work in tandem with gun dogs or retrieving dogs to aid in the efficient recovery of shot game. They may direct or assist the dogs in locating and retrieving birds, enhancing the overall efficiency of the process.
Beaters aim to create a controlled movement of game birds, ensuring they fly in a predictable…
not that I don't love the UK's native reptiles, all 5 of them, but I wish we had some more, and I wish they were bigger
I wish the UK had something crocodilian, or some sort of big monitor, maybe an actual big snake
but alas we are too cold
what we have, wonderful though they are, are three species of medium to small snake, and 3 little lizzies, one of which lacks legs
British Royal Family - Prince William of Wales hugs his girlfriend Catherine Middleton on a pheasant shoot at Windsor, Berkshire, Britain | December 18, 2007
“Pheasant Shooting in Western Ontario,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 29, 1932. Page 1.
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Guns cracked over a 170-miles front in Ontario, October 28, as a two-day pheasant hunt was officially started. This fair Diana shows how it’s done. She's Ruth Yerzy.
[AL: The Ontario pheasant hunt in 1932 was particularly controversial, for a number of reasons. The Ontario government was obviously attempting to limit the hunt to preserve animal numbers, and were draconian against out of season hunters - many of whom were poor men and women during the Depression who desperately needed food. But the hunt itself was accompanied by violence between game wardens and hunters, and between small town and rural locals and the rich tourist hunters, many from Toronto, Hamilton, and other urban centres, who swarmed rural areas, caused a ruckus, and were accused of overhunting. This photo definitely showcases one of the tourist hunters, who were understandably some of the least willing to accede to pheasant quotas during the days of the hunt itself, even when they might support penalizing poachers out of season. This was also one of the first years it was regulated on Pelee Island especially - a popular destination that really concentrated the conflicts here.]