The 2007 Shooting Times Woodcock Club Dinner

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Thursday, 17 May 2007

Woodcock fans enjoy a truly Scottish affair as the club heads north of the Border

Kilts, sporrans and Glenfarclas whisky were very much in evidence when the Shooting Times Woodcock Club Dinner headed to the exquisite surroundings of the Signet Library on Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile earlier this month.

The annual event, for members of the exclusive club who are lucky enough to have a shot a right-and-left at woodcock, is held to celebrate the sporting birds and, importantly, to raise funds for the Game Conservancy Trust’s research into them. On the night, attendees gave generously to raise more than £6,000 for lots including, naturally, woodcock shooting, stalking, fishing, flighting and sporting equipment kindly donated by companies and individuals, including E. J. Churchill Sporting, Dicksons of Edinburgh, James Lock & Co, Musto and The Gearach Estate on Islay. Some of the fiercest bidding was for an original painting of a flighting woodcock by Owen Williams.

Appropriately for the location, the club was privileged to have Rob Wainwright, former captain of the Scottish rugby team, as guest speaker at the event. A hugely keen Shot and contributor to ST’s Woodcock Broadcast, but only an aspiring member of the club, Rob regaled the audience with tales of a true passion for the bird, and nature in general, that he has found as a livestock farmer with his family on the remote Hebridean island of Coll, three hours by ferry from Oban.