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A James Kirk
It’s been some time since I’ve had the chance to get out and do some shooting. Working as I have over the past eighteen months, I’ve found that I often have so much to do that shooting is the last thing on my mind. I often have to make the decision between taking a shotgun… Continue reading
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Incubator Magic
After twenty four days in the incubator, my pheasant eggs suddenly showed fruit this morning. The early trouble with a power surge appears to have killed the overwhelming majority of eggs during the first thirty six hours, but after candling and scanning eggs for the past fortnight, we were able to filter out the majority… Continue reading
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An Introduction
The single greatest advance in the world of human technology was the invention of the wellington boot. Or so a ferret might argue. Playing with my two new jills in the garden this evening, I noticed that one of them was becoming increasingly vocal and shrill. Unsatisfied with tugging at my trouser leg, she started… Continue reading
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A Ray of Sunshine
After the depressing loss of my greyhen’s brood at the beginning of this month, I took the opportunity to cheer myself up today by visiting a friendly estate in the Borders where black grouse are highly prized and appear to be going from strength to strength. After a cup of coffee with the keeper, I… Continue reading
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The Snares of the Future?
I came across a huge variety of different snares when I sat my accreditation course last month, and wanting to find out more about some of the technology involved, I picked up a couple of GWCT designed snares last week. The GWCT have been great at researching alternatives and improvements to traditional snares in order… Continue reading
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New Arrivals
It’s been an extremely long day up in Glasgow, but before crashing out altogether, I wanted to celebrate the fact that this blog now has two new contributors. After an aeon spent searching through Stenhousemuir, Skinflats and Camelon for the location of a specific ferret breeder, my girlfriend and I finally managed to track him… Continue reading
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Reintroduction and Releases
Having travelled across the country last year researching the subject of black grouse, I came across some fascinating information. Perhaps most interesting of all is the work of a community group on the Isle of Arran which is dedicated to reintroducing black grouse to the island. After an absence of several years, the group was… Continue reading
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Hedge Roe
Having concentrated so hard on the hill for the past few months, I thought that it was about time that I looked further afield for a change. As much as I love the heather, it’s nice to take a break and see Galloway from a different perspective, so with this in mind, I headed down… Continue reading
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Cranberries in flower
After months of tramping daily across a barren moorscape, the undergrowth has recently come to life on the hill. After the cotton grass began to subside last week, other flowers have emerged to lurk amongst the downy wreckage of fluff. The most noticeable has been wild cranberry, which grows in two or three quite large… Continue reading
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My New Hero
I have never really liked Chris Packham, and I certainly never thought I’d see the day when one of his television programmes about the countryside actually made sense. “The Truth About Wildlife” has been a three part series of documentaries looking at the continued and worrying decline of British wildlife, despite government attempts to stem… Continue reading
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“Shout on, Morgan. You’ll be nothing tomorrow”
Swn y galon fach yn torri, 1952
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