Thankyou so much for the call which meant a sab could get out to this hunt. They were found drawing through Staunton Coppice and hounds followed a weak line of scent to Glynch farm. They were told off a bit by the sab’ with a quick rating as they started picking up and Mark Melladay , the huntsman, took them off on a traipse around some fields and spent a while calling back a few stragglers.

Predictably they ended up on top of Gadbury Bank where they soon moved away with Tom Stokes, terrierman, and chum doing something or the other up there and being VERY defensive and escorting the sab’ out. Why a quad needs to be on top of an ancient monument we will never know!

This is Gloucestershire zone 1 and in it’s 8th year of culling badgers. The first cages were found in this area in August 2013 and the whole area has been heavily shot and caged. 9 targeted setts were checked in the wider area and 8 found to be active with fresh spoil and bedding so well done to all who continue to protect these badgers. Really good news is that one sett that is persistantly blocked by the Ledbury was not so today and looked very active indeed!