Tim Melling – roding Woodcock

Tim writes: Living all my life in the north I see lots of roding Woodcocks  but this is the only half decent photograph I have ever managed to take.  After sunset males start to become active and perform spectacular display flights known as roding.  This special flight has slow motion flickering wing beats accompanied by…

An interesting report

At the Game Fair – I said those couple of days could keep this blog going for ages – I picked up a report by the  National Gamekeepers Organisation considering the state of nature on commercial shoots.  It’s an interesting read. With the snappy title ‘Gamekeepers and Wildlife’ this report compiles information from a postal…