Don't sound sad or soppy in the slightest. I'm getting just as much, if not maybe a bit more, enjoyment watching allsorts of wildlife now, WITHOUT trudging for f****n miles in wind, rain, mud, getting scratched to f**k , whipped across the fizzog by an unseen branch, cut by barbed wire, and all the other 'joys' that go with purposely trying to catch stuff! Lol.
My days, and mostly nights, of doing that are in the past. Don't think I went out once last season, and only a handful of times the season before that with my eldest son ?