Uninvited guests

Spring is in the post, and the hills are rising back to life again. It is hard to overstate the importance of predator control on behalf of wild game at this time of year, and I return to my traps and snares with a sense of uncharacteristic optimism.

Though our stock of wild grey partridges is teetering on the brink of collapse, we produced some reasonable coveys of grouse last summer, and it has been exciting