The Last Wild Game
Ask a keeper to promise woodcock and watch the evasion begin. They arrive from Scandinavia when weather pushes them south, refuse to be managed, and preserve what most shooting has eliminated: genuine uncertainty.
Shooting
The Pheasant
The pheasant is not English. It arrived from somewhere between the Black Sea and China, yet has become the definition of traditional country sport. A look at the bird's odd position in English culture and literature.
The Grey Partridge and What It Tells Us
The grey partridge belongs to a particular kind of English countryside – one that existed before intensive farming, before broad-spectrum pesticides, and before the landscape was asked to produce quite so much, quite so quickly.