Keeping their birds alive and well is every gamekeeper’s priority – and the biggest threat to their pheasants, ducks and partridges is foxes. Thermal technology gives keepers the tools to outwit such a cunning predator.
German optics company Zeiss has just released a range of thermal spotters and a front mounted add-on for a riflescope. Paul Childerley and his keepers try out the Zeiss DTI thermal range and discover their own ways of using them to monitor their birds, the foxes and even poachers.