The sky’s no limit
The hills of Northumberland have a wild and eerie charm. This is big country; landscapes run to the furthest horizon in a relay of rolling moors and broken, stony outcrops. It is the land of Kielder Forest and the Otterburn Ranges, crossed and rehashed by centuries of human history. The whole place reeks of Roman intervention and the bloody reign of the reivers, who fought an enduring conflict across the borderlands between Scotland and England. It is a suitably ghoulish and atmospheric location to act out an ancient tradition, and few fieldsports are more striking and impressive than falconry as practised by the Northumberland Crow Falconers.
Enthusiastic riders
was invited to cover a day’s sport in Northumberland with Dr Nick Fox OBE and his
