Stalking secretive Scottish sika
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- čas přidán 22. 11. 2022
- Helen Tinner continues her mission to shoot all six species of wild deer found in the UK. This time, she is out after a sika stag, near Biggar in the Scottish Borders. Using all the skills she has learned as a stalker so far, Nathan Whitehead guides her into animals in forestry.
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Why shoot deer?
There are more than two million red, roe, fallow, sika, muntjac and Chinese water deer in Britain’s countryside and semi-urban areas, the highest level for 1,000 years. Numbers have doubled since 1999, according to the Deer Initiative, the UK government’s deer agency.
Deer are an attractive and an important part of our wildlife. However, they have no natural predator in the UK so numbers must be sensibly and strategically managed to keep them in balance with their habitat and to prevent damage to crops, trees, woodland flora, gardens and other wildlife.
Deer cause £4.5 million-worth (Forestry Commission Scotland) of damage to plantations and other commercial woodlands in Scotland. Crop damage is estimated at £4.3m a year according to DEFRA, with the greatest damage on cereal crops in east and south-west England.
More than 8,000 hectares (Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) of woodland with SSI status is currently in ‘unfavourable’ or ‘recovering’ condition due to deer impacts such as browsing and fraying. Deer can also influence the variety of wildlife in woodlands and other habitats by altering structural and plant species diversity. According to the University of East Anglia’s Dr Paul Dolman, that has resulted in a 50% decline in woodland bird numbers where deer are present, impacting particularly on nightingales, blackcaps, chiffchaffs and warblers.
Deer are susceptible to Bovine TB and may be responsible for the transmission of TB to cattle. They are also the likely driver behind the UK’s increasing tick population (Scharlemann et al 2008).
Happily, venison is a delicious meat. It is wild, natural and free range, and - almost fat-free - it is one of the healthiest meats available today. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Venison is high in protein, low in saturated fatty acids and contains higher levels of iron than any other red meat.
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Fantastic efforts Helen,, and guys another brilliant programme 😉👌💜🇬🇧
Fabulous experience for you Helen well done again and well done feildsports Britain 👌🏼
What a brilliant lady.
Awesome shot Helen 👌
Their called ghosts of the forrest for a reason. Their the hardest deer to hunt, (blacktails) due to their nature and intelligence.
How much you pay
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whats better than a estate hunt..... a thermall sourced estate hunt LOL.
Beautiful landscape!! Great sika hunt, but screeming at wildlife and get bored in that situation of extreme excitement, I cannot understand. You must be patient when you hunt and not in a hurry to kill animals...that is at least the way and sense of hunting we do!!
I think his actions, were simply frustration building up, in an honest endeavour to give the lady an opportunity of a shot and after one hour wait, then unsure if there was actually a deer still there, as I’ve had them lie down, then after a while simply stand up and sneak away almost undetected because of the dense high bracken cover that we’re plagued with and you will have observed how it ran off several meters unexposed, merely causing a ripple in the undergrowth until breaking free to clear the wall. Also Nathan has a deserved reputation as a most ethical stalker like yourself. I watch all of your videos but they seem to have been scarce of late?
Don’t you find it’s quite selfish to kill life for momentary pleasure
I’m quite sure that the animals that are killed are always killed for a reason. That dear will most likely feed them for 2-3 weeks and I’m sure it will not go to waste
1, you need to manage deer numbers, 2, venison is healthy, ethically sourced and delicious, and 3, you don't know these people or anything about what motivates them.