Sunshine Stalking

One morning last summer I took out Stuart, an Australian stalker. At home, he was a member of a syndicate, with the main quarry being fallow deer. We met at 3.30am as arranged, and walked and stalked until just after 8am. We were lucky, with the sun finally breaking through patches of thin mist shortly before we finished. I was able to show Stuart a young roe buck and a muntjac doe – the first time he had seen these species. As a sheep farmer, Stuart was also interested in the fields of growing arable crops and the generally green landscape.

When we had finished stalking, we debriefed, with Stuart showing me that he