Gamekeeper shoots then buries two short-eared owls in Whernside, Yorkshi...

To the outsider a hill or a fell just looks like a remote waste land where nothing ever happens. The truth is however that these areas are highly regulate and often conservation bodies clash with framers and shooting syndicates. They are hot beds of tension. A few years ago this film was shot in a sting operation. At the time I couldnt believe the long distance filming that took place and the effort that was put into this operation. I mean who would you expect to be watching up there ? " Fun " fact - this guy bullied me verbally at secondary school and made my life a misery every day, along with others.

     So why am I bringing this up now ? Well last night the replacement game keeper sent me a film of my Dad driving a quad bike on the fell accidentally too near to the nest of a protected species. There is a hidden camera near the nest obviously. Its just beyond odd how times have changed. In a town you may expect to be watched and filmed, but out on a fell or hill top with not a human in site ? 

    Its a curse of YouTube that once something is uploaded by someone else its permanent unless they have broke some legal rule I guess. I wonder how it feels to be outed like this ? Imagine it was you for some reason ? Im not debating the wrongs or rights of this film rather the disturbing fact that Big Brother is watching you, even in the countryside. Actually it was audio recording that happened in the countryside in the novel, but whatever. There is no where out of sight anymore.