WITH regard to Ian Hawkridge’s letter about wildlife and pets during the air festival, I can say I profoundly disagree with his sentiments.

I was present down at the seafront and I certainly did not witness any terrified birds or dogs. Plenty of people walking around with dogs and those dogs all looked relaxed and not in the slightest bothered.

And the gulls and pigeons were poking around as normal, more interested in pecking up scraps.

Mr Hawkridge’s letter is similar in nature to a recent correspondent’s in the fact that he was watching the air show from his apartment, the other her home in another much further neighbourhood. I was down by the beach in person and nothing I saw comes close to what both these letter writers have said. As for the goats, I saw them a few years ago during the air show and they were up by the fence on the over-cliff. And not giving a monkeys, they were very chilled out, didn’t appear to be bothered at all.

Interesting that these letter writers have “witnessed” something when they were nowhere near the festival main area. I was, down by the seafront in the middle of it all so I think I know better than these correspondents.

Brigitte Barnes

Terrace Road,

Bournemouth