Scottish red deer hinds are, from 16 February, now enjoying their first legalised close season under the Deer (Scotland) Act 1959. A measure long overdue, but what a pity that roe deer are still excluded. It seems that we can shortly expect some similar form of legislation on behalf of English red deer, which are at present unprotected. Many estates always held to an ‘unwritten’ law as to close seasons; I personally finished hindstalking by the end of January.
As far as my hindstalking went, if the early part of it was mild, the latter half made up for it. And yet we did not have anything like the depth of snow we had last season, at least around the Caledonian Canal area of Invernessshire. To our east, and
