Bog Myrtle & Peat

As the spring progresses and the black grouse leks become noisier and more focussed, the blackcock who lives beside the farm buildings is losing some of his characteristic caution. In January, the sound of a car three hundred yards away would flush him in a panic, but he let me take this photograph of him today from a distance of around 20 feet.

Greyhens will soon be coming to his mini-lek, but I have one or two tricks I’d like to play on him before they do. Watch this space…