The winter threatened to just go on. By Christmas all expectations were for more of the same. As it's happened so far, the first weeks of 2011 have been not unusual: strong winds at times, plenty of mildness, some cold mornings with fine sunrises and now fog. Straining the eyes to see through the murk is what the early morning walker on Blacka is used to.
Not much clarity elsewhere either. I've asked the National Park and the Eastern Moors Partnership to comment on whether they are planning to cull deer (or indeed are already doing so). So far nothing has come back. Rumours are heard occasionally but this one had a bit more about it. The National Trust, the rumour said, had done a census of the deer around White Edge, Bigmoor and Longshaw and there are too many to sustain the landscape.
I agree totally with Mark's comment. These wild animals are on a huge area of publicly owned land which can easily sustain animals that many people see only rarely. Why should deer be killed while at the same time the managers are bringing in cattle?
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