Hunting is not and was never a “sport”. The wanton massacre of sentient creatures cannot classify as a sport especially today when repeater shotguns give no sporting chance to the hunted as was the case when bows and arrows, slings and falcons were the hunting weapons available.

In the days when hunter-gatherers hunted animals for food it was not a sport but a necessity and the hunters would only kill as much as they could consume or store. Shooting of God’s creatures — misrepresented as hunting — vernal or otherwise, is, in my view, a crime against nature.

I think that there should be a stop to all development.

Than you might start having bird song in your neighbourhood.

We should than divert all those employed in the building industry to accompanying the birds with their guitars.

The tourists would love it.

Joking apart, the best places to enjoy birdsong are London, Paris, New York.

The pity is that in all these places the birds seem to suffer from sore throats, owing to the fumes.
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Anything to please you.

It is haphazard, lacking in direction and without a plot. Mewho, to fully understand the comment you have to start reading from the top line right through to the bottom line. It is only then that you should get back to this site with more sense to your comments. Thanks.

The lines:

Goodbye Michelle it’s hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky

were hardly inspired by the Maltese countryside

One of the birds on the endangered list due to spring hunting is the cuckoo.

I suppose that in Malta it is difficult to understand the relevance of the cuckoo’s call.

Abroad, it is part of the countryside. It is also part of the agriculturers’ landscape.

Part of the rhythm of the day, and of the seasons.

The “plot” is that stories of the sort you mention, and childhood memories in the country for all those Europeans who live in or visit the countryside, come to an end when the cuckoo’s call is no longer there.

Hear , hear . However you might have a problem finding his head……

You don’t need an argument to ban trapping. You need an argument to justify it.

Your move.

If you really think that this comment is “haphazard, lacking in direction and without a plot” then you need your brain examined or have the blinkers removed.