Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 31 January 2021

  • Cock o’ the North

    Cock o’ the North

    Ok, I known it’s a name more usually associated with the much smaller Brambling but I thought it suited this cock grouse guarding its territory. A territory which includes the pre-historic cairn cemetery and earthworks of Great Ayton Moor. The centrepiece is undoubtedly a Neolithic chambered cairn upon which the grouse is perched. It comprises…