White pheasants – what are they for?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZkoPMUW1g What are white pheasants? They are just ordinary pheasants that are albino – but they serve two important purposes in the countryside. They help
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHZkoPMUW1g What are white pheasants? They are just ordinary pheasants that are albino – but they serve two important purposes in the countryside. They help
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd06nxjxkeU Following a tough shooting season in 2020/21, gamekeepers, shoot owners, operators and sporting agents are taking bookings for 2021/22. Some of them are being
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ7H6sdawWk by Ben O’Rourke “If I were going to choose somewhere to radio track pine martens, I wouldn’t have chosen this,” says Craig Shuttleworth, who’s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2u7yZkaHXI “There’s a pair of grey partridges that like this particular feeder. Whether we shall see them or whether they’ll keep a low profile…” shrugs
youtu.be/Kck6o9YSg-Q It’s been more than 20 years since the Scottish Gamekeepers’ Association took to the streets of Edinburgh for a protest. The march in 2000,
In the 1970s, there were more than 20,000 capercaillie in the UK. “Now there might only be 1,000,” says Ian Coghill, chairman of the Coordinated
Out with a gun and a dog, gamekeeper Paul Childerley is keeping an eye on his ground while enjoying his shooting. It’s all the
Gamekeeper Paul Childerley finishes his rounds looking after pheasants and ducks, and then he takes time to carry out shoot management. Today, it is
Ben O’Rourke “We’ve learnt a lot through working with the GWCT about how we approach things, how I approach my work, planning it and
David Whitby manages a shooting estate in Sussex, looking after pheasants, partridges, deer – and he brings his work home with him. Living with him
Channel 4 News made a one-sided and bitter attack on moorland conservation in a news piece, fronted by its reporter Jane Dodge. Ben O’Rourke
News editor Ben O’Rourke talks to grouse moor owners about how they are reversing the post-war drainage of the UK’s moorland. He shows that Wild
Demand for pheasant poults has gone down, supply has gone down, prices have gone up a little: coming out of coronavirus lockdown could be
When Chris Packham criticises grouseshooting, the BBC reports what he says. In the absence of balance, we expose three fibs the anti grouseshooters like to
Followers of BBC celebrity Chris Packham are probably used to hearing stories of doom and gloom on Britain’s moors. This is not one of
20 times world champion shooter George Digweed likes doing things well and that includes presenting the best birds possible on his game shoots. We join
From the beginning of April, wildfires rage across the UK’s uplands, burning hardest where there has been either poor management or rewilding. Just days into
One of the UK’s premier gamekeeping colleges is to shut. Newton Rigg in Cumbria is the only college with its own grousemoor. Askham Bryan College
Grouseshooter James Mawle is one of the most passionate grouse conservationists in the UK. He takes Ben O’Rourke for a walk around his ground
When newspapers reported the death of a peregrine, they copied and pasted the press release from animal rights activists. It had been shot, they said.
The RSPB wants to get a job as the nation’s gamekeeper. It looks like it wants to get rid of all the other gamekeepers,
Last week, activists hit a small family game farm in Kent. They struck in the middle of the night and released thousands of birds to
For around three months of the year, red deer are off the shooting menu. Well, that doesn’t mean that Scottish deerstalker Niall Rowantree can hang
Jason Doyle and his girlfriend Carly join the Shelton Abbey Shoot in Co Wicklow for the end-of-season keeper’s day, where the gamekeeper gets to thank
Paul Childerley is after squirrels. They are chewing up the water pipes in his pheasant pens, and this is the time of year they greys
Lyme disease leaves you at your wits’ end. For deerstalker Tim Pilbeam, who has been living with it for 20 years, he has given up
Out shooting driven partridges and pheasants? Gamekeeper Paul Childerley explains the importance of presenting birds, and why you should take care of birds on the
Paul Childerley shows what it takes to be a modern gamekeeper. He is working on his shoot in Bedfordshire, bringing on young birds and getting
It is early September and gamekeeper Paul Childerley will be shooting in a few weeks time. He takes delivery of a second tranche of partridges
It’s started. Gamekeeper Paul Childerley has taken delivery of his pheasants on the shoot in Bedfordshire. Now he has to be Pheasant Supernanny and keep
Paul Childerley becomes ‘The Childernator’. The working gamekeeper is protecting his cover crops from corvids and even doing good work as a goose scarer. Plus
Here’s what to feed your pheasants. We go behind the scenes at Mardens Feeds to find out what goes into their sacks of game bird
We are out with three generations of beaters from the same family: Jack, Richard and Peter Smith are father, son and grandson. It’s the first
Two shooters from Somerset are on fox patrol around a shoot when they come across a foxshooting field of dreams. Find out how Stephen Phillips
With foxes on the prowl for pheasant poults, it’s time for keepers to get out the rifles and start shooting. To coincide with this, Sauer
Andy Crow faces some of the most challenging partridge and duck shooting he has ever seen – and the pheasants aren’t bad either. He is
The National Gamekeepers’ Organisation gets its Midlands members on to a hillside in Derbyshire to try out Browning’s latest crop of rifles: the X-Bolt, T-Bolt
George Digweed is a busy man. He has just won his 25th world title in a domination of shooting sports that began in the 1980’s.
The Purdey Awards for Conservation show some of the work that shoots up and down the UK put into general conservation. We visit the five
We’ve got a gamekeeper who’s a bit of an old softie. Although he has ‘dealt with’ lots of foxes in the line of his work,
It’s July – a busy time of year for keepers – and we’re out with Gary Freegard, gamekeeper on a 4,000-acre shooting estate on the
Is this the ultimate gamekeeper transport? Sporting Shooter editor Dom Holtam takes the Polaris range for a burn round the fields. This film first appeared
The proof of the pudding is in the eating or, in this case, the shooting. Canal Game Farm’s birds are on shoots all over the
We join gamekeeping students at Plumpton College in Sussex on their shoot day. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain, episode 6. To watch the
With the pheasant opening day around the corner, gamekeepers are out after foxes and Sporting Rifle expert Mike Powell is no exception. He’s protecting his
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season – but these ones are not for shooting. They
Some 36,000 partridge chicks are on their way to Canal Game Farm at the end of April. Staff are there to make sure they settle
It’s flatpack hell at Canal Game Farm as staff set up the brooder huts. They took them down at the end of last season and
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