Old cable drums, if you can get hold of them, make excellent potting tables (not sure what I’m going to do with all the little ones though!)
#gardening#recycling#Growyourown
@jcjeremyhobson Their spread is extraordinary. Twenty years ago I stalked an estate in Wiltshire, I saw one muntjac in four years, I shot it. The estate now shoot around 60 a year and admit they are still increasing
Driving home late last evening, on one stretch of dual carriageway, in several places, I saw muntjac grazing on the verge in much the same way as one used to see rabbits at the roadside. Nowadays, seeing a rabbit is rare in our part of the world. Muntjac, not so much so.
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@PegFluff Top work, I thought I was doing well down there on Friday with three grassed, in fairness could have been four but we waited for the fallow. Like you say, thick with them. Fascinating little deer
@BritishDeerSoc is this a fallow pricket antler rather than off a young red deer? Found in site with both species and I'm leaning towards fallow deer myself
The Muntjac plague in East Anglia is proving disastrous for our farmland wildlife. You can read, for free, in @scribehound_ctr how a couple of hedgelayers and a butcher are trying to cure that ill.
scribehound.com/countryside/sh…
@PegFluff Given that it’s not a photographic safari you are going on you need a specialist provider, I use SportsCoverDirect which covers your activity. You should also have insurance that covers medical evacuation, I use Global Rescue. Pop over if you need help
@TwrchIwrch Best scope I have owned was a Polar, unfortunately I couldn’t get a rail for my new rifle so..good to see S&B moving the IR onto the turret cluster on it’s latest models
@jcjeremyhobson I was on ‘wall collapse watch’ at Uppark after the terrible fire when I worked for the NT in the 90s. They weren’t a bad organisation in those days but now…