About time too !

Beautiful!

For more years than I care to remember, I have planned an annual outing for a spectacle that is fast disappearing from our moorlands across the UK. Well 2012 proved the year that I would actually realise that plan, to go and photograph a Black Grouse Lek.

This did of course mean a stupid o'clock rise and a rushed Maccy,d's (god bless their overnight staff) fortified with coffee it was away for what turned out to be an amazing morning. Even the weather could not dampen the spirits of myself or that of the Grouse.


Pose they did



Shout and burble

Challenging all comers.

And no backing down once challenged.




And they did.

Beak and claw.

 

Feathers flew.

The whole episode lasted for the eight males contesting the females some two hours before they departed.
A brilliant early mornings adventure.

Cheers
Paul