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    Country Diary

    Jul 22, 2020 3 minutes

    is always encouraging to find a few broods of wild pheasants at this time of year. Their success is heavily weather dependent and they tend to fail in this wet, rainswept corner of Scotland. Even the world’s greatest gamekeepers are stumped by foul, persistently soggy conditions during the breeding season but the warm, dry spring of 2020 has lain in the pheasant’s favour. I have found youngsters at all stages of progress and

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