White pheasants
Canal Game Farm is producing them for estates all over the country – the white pheasant is (a) a useful marker for other birds or (b) a pain in the neck that can earn you a fine of £50+ if you shoot it, depending on whether you are (1) a gamekeeper or (2) a hapless […]
English grey partridge conservation
Canal Game Farm is delivering English greys partridges at the start of the partridge shooting season – but these ones are not for shooting. They have been bought as part of farmer Tim Piper’s conservation effort. He has planted habitat suitable for them. Shocked that there were no native grey partridges to live in his […]
Game farm – chicks arrive
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 in and start the long slow process that will see them delivered to shoots as full-grown birds in just a few months time. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Game farm – hut building
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 now, at the beginning of April, they are reassembling them. Watch all the preparations they make for the arrival of the baby birds. This film first appeared in Fieldsports Britain.
Shooting Politics, episode 4, 30th September 2009
Robin Page is an angry old git… …Thats by his own admission too. Robin is the subject of tonights half-hour Shooting Politics show on Fieldsports Channel. Hear the former BBC presenter rail against Labour, the Conservatives, farming and, of course, the BBC. When it comes to slinging insults at all those who want to concrete […]
Shooting Politics, episode 3, 16th September 2009
The British countrysports debate programme. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, on the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent Savills. Questions they are answering are: […]
Shooting Politics, episode 2, 2nd September 2009
It’s our countrysports debate programme Shooting Politics and it is out now. Filmed at the Countryside Alliance headquarters in London, the panel is: Countryside Alliance head of media Tim Bonner, BASC South-West regional director Jamie Stewart, Chief executive of the Roxtons sporting agency Christopher Robinson, and David Pardoe from the rural depart of estate agent […]
Shooting Politics, episode 1, 19th August 2009
Panellists on the new countrysports webTV debate programme Shooting Politics lay into the RSPB for its attacks on gamekeepers, its attempt to ‘monster’ countryside managers and its failure to offer an alternative that will provide Britain’s wild spaces with the conservation work that gamekeepers provide as part of their jobs. This episode was filmed at […]
Crufts 2009 gundogs
Do you want to know what the perfect gundog looks like? You won’t see it on the BBC, which dramatically pulled out of covering Crufts 2009. Instead, watch it on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Gundogs at Crufts 2009 is the subject of a 45-minute TV documentary that’s free to download and watch on FieldsportsChannel.tv. Presenter Charlie Jacoby brings […]
Advanced Pike Attractants
Ant Glascoe Jr. Takes on winter piking with some not so common sense. Will pike be attracted to unusual smells? This item first appeared in Fishing Britain episode 1. To watch the whole show go to Fcha.nl/fishingbritain1 Join the Fieldsports Nation. Just £/$/€4.99 a month gets you Fieldsports Channel membership. Click here Sign up for our weekly […]
