lekking
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Hallelujah!
I was beginning to think that there were no black grouse left on the Chayne. Nobody has seen a bird for over two years, and since then they seem to have fallen off the map altogether. My repeated searches across every likely acre of the farm have failed to show fruit, and as I tumbled Continue reading
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My first lek
My work to regenerate black grouse habitat on the Chayne has drawn all its energy from my imagination. I have seen etchings and illustrations of black grouse shooting in the Victorian age, and local guns in their fifties and sixties still vividly recall the thrill of the sport, but only ever having seen three of Continue reading
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“Shout on, Morgan. You’ll be nothing tomorrow”
Swn y galon fach yn torri, 1952
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Bog Myrtle & Peat 