It’s time for a good clean-up

I am continually surprised by the number of people who think work on a shoot stops on 1 February, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The end of the shooting season may mean there is less organising to do, but there is more to do in a physical sense than there is in January, when everything is in place and fairly routine. Our priorities post-shooting season are the topping up of the feeders and, of course, keeping on top of the tidying up.

Most of our feeders are left in situ to start with. We then