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It’s easy to be tempted by high birds in the heat of the moment but you should know your limits and not risk wounding, says Mike Swan

I had a meeting a fortnight ago with one of my farming customers. We had presented him with his hedgerow management plan, as some 53km was set to come under our care. For the next five years we would lay or coppice, plant new, change cutting regimes and fill gaps. All this would be done at no little expense to him and considerable physical effort by Richard Gould and I. The sole reason for all of this cost and labour was to improve the biodiversity potential of our customer’s Norfolk farm. His ambition was admirable, to ensure these arteries of the landscape fill with bird life. This bold an...

I have met people who believe that anyone who picks-up for free is misguided and letting the side down, driving down the value of a picker-up.

Hen pheasants are traditionally painted as poor mothers but this is very unfair, argues Mike Swan, pointing to extraneous factors

The owner of ‘Shooting in Progress’ signs that were erected in the Ely Lodge and Carrickreagh area of Co. Fermanagh and later removed by the…