It’s not all high birds and rolling redlegs...

I try to find an East Anglian link in everything. When it comes to partridge shooting, it is not such a struggle compared with other activities, such as mountaineering or motorway spotting.

Of course, using the term ‘partridge shooting’ to encompass both and is a misnomer. While the two are related and inextricably linked with the big skies and sweeping landscapes of Suffolk and Norfolk, they are, as sporting birds, quite different. For the purposes of this article, I will leave my beloved greys alone and concentrate on redlegs. As the season opened, I asked two of the finest and most East Anglian of partridge