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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  Rubbish  I crawl my way through all sorts of habitats like that - you just follow the tracks the animals use, it hurts- (though 8ft high bramble scrub hurts far more) - but its far from impossible..... My boss used to say its what seperates the men from the boys - though I'm not sure what that makes me  . |
as i was there and you werent thats a bit of a harsh judgement - and also crawling through to survey is one thing , crawling through equiped with the nets , shovels, firearms etc necessary to dig an earth, then finding all the entrances, and digging it all the while on your belly or at best in a prenatal crouch is something else again.
and fitting doing that into a day which starts at 4am and ends at about 8pm (with on call duty during the off period) on your own, while also you are patrolling against egg theives, checking the trap lines (larsen and fenn), doing practical repair to the hides, running the visitor centre, interpreting the reserve for visitors , policing idiot behavior, surveying 3 red data book bird species , a butterfly transect and an orchid quadrile is something else entirely
anyway lets just agree to disagree on this before this thread goes the way of the tother.
edit: and i agree with you about the crimes - but using snares is currently legal , and is likely to stay that way which in my view makes it okay as a distasteful last resort where you have no other realistic option.