Christina Andersen

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She grew up in Denmark, in the city of Odense, the main city of the island Fyn. After High School she started studying and graduated from Danish Business School with Business Economy as main subject. She then became a trainee at Kuwait Petroleum in Denmark. After some years, she got the opportunity to work at VELUX windows company and has carried out work at their factories in Denmark, Germany and Scotland. Alongside her jobs, she has been involved in the rearing field in Denmark and Scotland for several years, from hatching to rearing to release.

She is now responsible for rearing the birds at Ayton Castle & Dunglass Shoot, rearing 50.000 pheasants every year.

She is very active training and trialing her dogs, labradors and cocker spaniels. She has made up 4 Blood tracking Champions after wounded deer, in Norway and  Sweden, a few field trial winners and a few working test winners.

Most of the shooting season, she is picking up or beating with her dogs at various estates.

Thor Sondergaard

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He grew up on a farm in Denmark and after High School he started studying at agricultural College.

Upon completing 4 years of college and working on dairy farms in Denmark, he was offered the opportunity to train as a gamekeeper in Greece. After a year in Greece he went to Scotland for a year, and then back to Denmark for 3 years working as a trainee on different estates, learning the skills of gamekeeping, finally finishing off at Kalø wildlife management College.

He then went on to become gamekeeper at Ravnholt Estate in Denmark, but after a year left to go back to Scotland and become a self employed gamekeeper. Upon leasing the sporting rights at Ayton Castle Estate and surrounding farms in Berwickshire, he begun transforming the shoot into the great experience it is today, successfully running it for 15 years now.

9 years ago he expanded the shoot with the inclusion of Dunglass Estate in East Lothian and employed keeper Brian Fairbairn. They now run both shoots successfully together.