I often enjoy evening walks in the spring and summer armed with just the camera or binoculars, observing wildlife but in particular foxes. You can learn a great deal about the behaviour of an animal by simply watching it. It’s something all good hunters should do, as if you don’t how do you hope to…
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Hound to Ground
With the new season just a few weeks away, perhaps I had better tie up the end of the last one. I don’t know why, but many of us expected to be very busy on killing calls when the official season had ended. We were right, there were plenty of such calls and they kept…
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Pregnant
At the start of my mooch Poppy, the Teckel with the wondrous nose, started to snuffle along the burn. Every so often she would alter her course and go off at a right angle but never into the burn, so I assumed that whatever she was tracking was not a mink. It was unlikely to…
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Coursing Memories
From a shimmering distance a tiny dark dot came closer and closer until there were two tiny dark dots, the smaller one leading the way. That was the first I’d seen of the course though it had started a minute earlier. I was stood, as usual, with the camera and my back to a small…
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Something Special Happens
If you are going to a football or rugby match you can generally know what to expect. Depending on the two teams you can make a fairly accurate guess as to what will take place, though the beauty of sport is that the unexpected can always be expected and the no hoper will sometimes confound…
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