Ferreting in the Yorkshire Dales
The weather report wasn't all that brilliant for the Sunday but we decided to chance a trip to Upper Wharfedale.
A purse net set over a hole on the first warren to be ferreted. |
The first rabbit of the day bolted by one of Jack's ferrets, she's the daughter Tara one of my rescued ferrets. |
Kira has a quick look round before going underground, Tommy (the lurcher) waits for the action to begin. |
A rabbit well and truly caught in a purse net. |
One of Jack's albino jills checks out her rabbit. She was one of two albino jills who had been rescued from some yobs who had been using them as footballs. |
Jack and Tommy working a warren. |
Tommy retrieves a rabbit. |
Tommy gives up the rabbit to Jack. |
A view down the valley towards the village. |
Paunching the rabbits at the end of the days rabbit control operation. |