Out & About …

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

Day: 30 May 2022

  • It saw me before I heard it

    It saw me before I heard it

    The curlew, the Eurasian Curlew to be precise, Numenius arquata, the darling of the grouse moor owners. Their relative success in breeding on our moors is the keepers’ justification for the trapping of every predator which has a taste for grouse chicks. It’s their vindication that estates managed for shooting are rich in bio-diversity. An…