IN ASSOCIATION WITH ALAN PAINE

Each week, the best letter wins a pair of water repellent Chorley gaiters supplied by Alan Paine. Visit for details of your local Alan Paine stockist. If your letter is chosen please contact ollie.harvey@futurenet.com to claim your prize island’s 19,000 shooters allowed a potential bag of a dozen doves each (News, 31 August). Though it seems highly unlikely that the potential bag of nearly a quarter of a million doves will be reached, shooting this endangered dove

Numbers of turtle doves have declined steeply in recent years