A drive through The Strines, near Sheffield today produced this stunning male red grouse standing on top of a dry stone wall. As I rounded a bend there he was and for a moment we eyed each other up like a couple of western gunslingers wondering who would make the first move. I reversed the car, grabbed the 500mm and put it out of the window and then slowly drove back round and was lucky enough to find he was still there. Looking a tad wary now though, he stayed for a good few minutes while I made some fine images of him :¬) It’s only when you see them out in the open like this you get to marvel at their white feathery ‘trousers’ which protects their legs from the freezing conditions of the moorland during the winter months.
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A red grouse male perches on top of a drystone wall near Sheffield
