Tag Archives: Keeper

Walked up..and Up…and UP Grouse

What better way to start the season than three days spent tramping behind the dogs? Grouse over pointers makes you appreciate the beaters on driven days, and the quarry everyday.
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Driven Pheasant Stage Three: Rearing Shed

Some keepers stress on the day, berating the beaters as they race around trying to ensure that the birds are moving in the right direction and the right numbers to provide guns with the perfect day’s sport. Others spend their summers stressing over the chicks in the rearing field, clucking around like mother hens
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Swan Replaces Trout on the Nation’s Plate?

One of the local river keepers is taking issue with the Queen’s diet: she’s not eating enough swan and, unchecked by natural predators, the mute swan population is booming.
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Driven Pheasant Stage One: The Egg

The rain has put paid to my attempts to bag that muntjac, and I have resorted to gazing out the window at the moist pheasants in the Keeper’s laying field for amusement.
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