Mystery tour

Geoff Garrod is intrigued by some young and markedly different-looking visitors he had on his patch

The summer fires that I spoke of in a past article (Hot stuff!, October issue) presented me with my first really good bag of the year. The fires that swept across the corn fields at the height of the heatwave were travelling so fast that much of the corn wasn’t completely burned off and had been left lying on the ground – scorched but still on their heads. The crop was unharvestable because the straw had burned through and collapsed, so there was no way the combine could collect the scattered wheat off the ground and it was too scorched anyway. These fields had then been direct drilled with winter rape and it was just starting to break the surface. This, unfortunately for the farmer, had coincided with an unexpected…

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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2022

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