David Tomlinson is a specialist writer on wildlife and countryside subjects whose work has taken him from Arizona to Argentina, Kazakhstan to Kenya, and almost every country in Europe. Among his more memorable experiences are being charged by a bull elephant while walking in Okavango, sharing a car with a young Jeremy Clarkson and watching Borg beat McEnroe at Wimbledon. He has contributed the Sporting Dog column to The Field for 12 years. He lives in rural Suffolk with his wife and spaniels. He doesn’t do social media.