The silage and haylage fields are being baked with all the hot weather and virtually no rainfall. The grass is scorched especially when...

The tree bees have been causing the usual hysteria to people who think they have swarms of wasps flying around outside their house. They...

On my way over to Chipping to do a job I came across this. At first I thought it was a Munty (Muntjac Deer), but as I was able to follow...

In a hot dry spell like we are having at the moment, normally a large open short grass area would not have a serious mole problem, but...

Trapped a few fields in the Yarrow valley at Euxton. It registered 36.8 degrees C down by river on my thermometer. I came prepared and...

Badgers dig a latrine to poo in. They are a very tidy, clean animal, so this one must have been a too lazy to dig a hole so it used my...

It's a 7 day a week hobby for me is mole trapping. If it was a job it would be 9 to 5, Mon to Fri, and feet up at the weekend, but...

At this time of year it's flat out work going round farms after the 1st cut silage. The haylage and hay fields will be cut later next...

Trapping moles on the moss land of West Lancashire for the vegetable growers. Now this is a bit more time consuming than doing grass...

Dead moles soon start to sweat when the soil temperature is as high as it is at the moment. Anything removed within a couple of hours of...

Sorry I couldn't attend the wedding, (my invite must have got lost in the post) but I've too much work on at the moment. I had a warm...

Just about to pack up after nearly 12 hours trapping. I managed to get round all the recently cut fields in the day, thanks to the great...

This farm has about 50 horses as well as a few thousand hill sheep and cattle. The farmer likes his heavy horses and these are two of his...

This will probably be my last hill farm for a while as the dairy farmers on the coast have finally started cutting their grass silage,...

Spent 8 hours the day before setting 84 traps on land that is new to me this year. Removed quite a few whilst trapping, 18 in fact, and...

From this job I'm on now I can see where I'll be working in a few days time. Haslingden Grane

I've never yet filled my bucket completely in one day, but sometimes it comes close.

On this farm I have to ford a river to get to the haylage fields on the other side. Fine when the river is low like it is now, gets a bit...

View over towards Blackburn from Darwen. Can't get any more mole trapping done on the lower farms now as the grass is too long and not...

Took me by surprise to find 4 red hinds in the field I was working in. Not a usual sight around Preston. Turned out they had been...