Real drop in temp and lots of rain ment autumn/winter was proper here, that usually means I start getting marks at rat burrows. This morning I brought the spade for first time since last March. Got good hunt at big ears, flushed plenty of birds and got two marks, no sign of a rabbit anywhere on this particular ground though.One mark got me a nest of a big doe rat and four near grown kits. Second mark was on a deep ditch so I moved on cos there's always burrows down in the ditch ya can't find were you loose the rats but I was delighted to see my GS pup Zara mark that burrow. She didn't really k