ROE COVER-UP?

I sent, and you received, the following letter by email on 2 September 2022. I’m not sure why you chose not to publish it. Surely the function of Shooting Times is to accurately inform your readership?

Your expert Iain Watson’s response to the question of ‘extremely late pregnancy’

(Sporting answers, 31 August), is biologically incorrect. The roe deer is monoestrous; it has only one cycle a year and, unlike the red and sika deer, does not keep coming into season.

A possible explanation is the phenomenon of delayed implantation, which together with their monoestrous cycle, is a feature of the roe deer.

Why would you elect to deny your readers from the facts? Phil Burnell, by email

‘‘The wildlife of today is not ours to dispose of as we please. We have it in trust. We must account for it to those who come after.’’ King George VI

Walked-up snipe, geese on the Isle of Lewis, are we just going to have to live with bird flu, and hunting grey partridges in Suffolk

with falcons.