Every little helps

We should not forget those who every now and again come up and do some work with us on the shoot, especially those who do not enjoy the shoot days themselves either because they are too young and/or at school; here is a couple of them on poult day.

Grace with her new best friend

Rhiannon who has done a days beating last October half term, though no such luck this year as the school holidays do not fall on a shoot day

And we should not forget the old hands, Haystak the gamekeep and Captain of Shoot being suprvised

Plus all of the others, Conor,Teddy,Karl,John,Mike and Ollie, a big thank you.

What have we been up to

Since the end of last season the usual repairs and making good have been going on, we have continued to feed up in the hope of keeping last years birds that got away hanging around.

The cover crops have gone in, our small cover crop has failed us again, just not enough nutrients in the soil, quite simply we require shit and lime.

Johns cover crop has fared much better and should give us some good high birds. The picture below has been taken at the lower end of the field, the guns will be standing along the fence line which is basically at the edge of the wheat field, the birds (we hope) will be flying above the guns at quite a speed.

The poults are in the pens and doing well considering the weather, we have lost a few as the rains have been constant and the ground saturated, it appears for the moment we are beating the predators.

Getting the pens ready





The pens now with added poults

Snow, Snow and a bit More Snow

These pictures just about some up January.

The snow though very picturesque was a bit too heavy for a good days shooting.

Keepers day was ruined due to the blizzard conditions.

Rumors abound that this year we will have a dry and cold winter, nice if it happens.