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Savouring the spring

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‘Oh, to be in England, now that April’s there.’ Robert Browning’s timeless words appeal directly to me as they were penned from abroad in longing for an English spring. This kaleidoscope of promise and awakening brings with it some of the most wonderful sport, almost all of it solitary. For me, April’s all about roe bucks. Our most elegant and bewitching native deer species has been recorded here since before the Mesolithic Period and is absolutely a part of the

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