Wild excitement

DR MIKE SWAN IS HEAD OF EDUCATION AND THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL ADVISER FOR THE GAME & WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST

It’s been a funny old summer in so many ways. Many things have come together on my little Dorset rough shoot in a way that I had long hoped for, but not really expected.

With harvest all but over, I have been cruising the stubbles and, lo and behold, we have some wild game. Indeed, I think we can look back on our best wild-bird breeding season in quite a few years.

I had a suspicion that we would record a better than average year for pheasants quite