I haven't moved for 31 years. Your italicised description has nothing to do with natural ecological processes that lead to climax communities. You are arguing from ignorance. I did suggest that you look it up but I see you merely sought out a source that you think confirms your preconceptions. The vixen was at our end of the field, the eastern end, whereas the hunt was to the west edge, the seaward end. The incident occurred on a dull, dry afternoon with a light westerly airflow. I've kept a weather diary, with little interruption, daily since I was fourteen years old and can pinpoint individual days and events quite easily. I have said nothing in any of my posts about farmed grouse. As pfr says, unless you're being a rude, aggressive and pig-ignorant man you'd be very boring with all your nonsense. And I take it that your constant attacks on my teaching career, which you can't actually know a dickie-bird about, are the upshot of your own personal unfortunate encounters in your own schooling, or lack of it. Perhaps you like me to think that you have a degree in Common Sense obtained from the University of Life. I know quite a few people like that.