HOW WILD CAN YOU GET?

I greatly respect the views of Richard Negus and he is a fine columnist, but I can’t entirely agree with his comments that released pheasants are not ‘wild’ (Country Diary, 10 August).

OK, so they were almost certainly artificially incubated and subsequently reared in semi-domesticated conditions prior to reaching the release pen. Yet, from the moment the pop-holes are opened, those poults have to quickly acclimatise to the big, wide