Cut to the chase

I lay in bed after I was awoken by my alarm in the early hours of a spring morning. The warm breeze moved the curtains revealing an inky black sky. I am normally a light sleeper when I know that I am going shooting the next day and it didn’t take me long to get up. I let the dogs out and stood on the decking with a coffee, running through the day’s plan in my head.

The strategy

The many farms on the estate had started bringing the grass in from the fields the previous day. This created a good opportunity to shoot crows as they typically decoy well