Photographing Red Grouse and a surprise visitor makes an appearance - Bird Photography

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  • Опубліковано 7 лют 2023
  • Today I went out into the Yorkshire Dales to photograph the red grouse.
    The Red Grouse is a bird that likes the hide itself deep in the heather, making it a challenge to photograph them out in the open.
    I decided to head out early this morning and get out onto the moors just before sunset, this proved to be a great idea, as I managed to get some wonderful photos of the Red Grouse sitting on the wall as the sun was just rising over the hills.
    For much of the day, I decided to just hunker down in the heather and wait for the red grouse to make an appearance, my initial thoughts were that it was going to be a tough day, and be limited to the amount of shots iI would get, but that was not the case, by lunchtime I was all done with plenty of great shots and even a surprise visit from a pair of red kites flying overhead.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 10

  • @kenrees8726
    @kenrees8726 5 місяців тому

    What a fantastic video and stunning images

  • @paulbeachcroft3323
    @paulbeachcroft3323 Рік тому +2

    Great film, great photos and Red Kites to boot😂😂😂😂😂

  • @wildphil
    @wildphil Рік тому +2

    Lovely video. What an awesome moor and colours in the sky! You'd think with such a vast area that theose dog walkers would have just kept away from you but I guess you can't reason with stupidity. It happens to me too, sometimes. Keep up the great work.

  • @indyreno2933
    @indyreno2933 Рік тому +1

    Scientific names of all twenty-two extant grouse species:
    1) Falcipennis falcipennis - Siberian Grouse
    2) Tetrastes sewerzowi - Chinese Grouse
    3) Tetrastes bonasia - Hazel Grouse
    4) Ortygoperdix scotica - Red Grouse
    5) Lagopus lagopus - Willow Ptarmigan
    6) Lagopus mutus - Rock Ptarmigan
    7) Lagopus leucurus - White-Tailed Ptarmigan
    8) Lyrurus tetrix - Northern Black Grouse
    9) Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi - Southern Black Grouse
    10) Tetrao urogalloides - Eastern Capercallie
    11) Tetrao urogallus - Western Capercallie
    12) Bonasa umbellus - Ruffed Grouse
    13) Canachites canadensis - Canada Grouse
    14) Canachites franklinii - Franklin's Grouse
    15) Pedioectes phasianellus - Sharp-Tailed Grouse
    16) Dendragapus obscurus - Dusky Grouse
    17) Dendragapus fuliginosus - Sooty Grouse
    18) Tympanuchus attwateri - Attwater's Prairie Chicken
    19) Tympanuchus pallidicinctus - Lesser Prairie Chicken
    20) Tympanuchus pinnatus - Greater Prairie Chicken
    21) Centrocercus minimus - Lesser Sage Grouse
    22) Centrocercus urophasianus - Greater Sage Grouse

  • @dylannewton76
    @dylannewton76 Рік тому +1

    What a stunning day out Ash. On my bucket list. Huge problem here in Australia is dogs unleashed on wading/shorebird nesting sites and the owners do not give one crap. It's funny how folks react poorly to others being out doing exactly what they are, enjoying themselves. We're a funny lot.

    • @WildlifePhotographerUK
      @WildlifePhotographerUK  Рік тому

      Yeh I know its a shame, some people can not just walk by and leave us to it, they said they had more right to be there than I did, as they come onto the Moores all the time anyway I just left them to it, after she threatened me with her dog saying its a good job the dog was on a lead, she had a big doberman to ☹

    • @dylannewton76
      @dylannewton76 Рік тому +1

      @@WildlifePhotographerUK Awful mate. I'd record those interactions and pass onto police as a threat. Otherwise they just continue being entitled assholes. Hope the next one is idiot free

    • @Bird_in_camera
      @Bird_in_camera Рік тому +1

      ​@@WildlifePhotographerUKsome people have crazy logic. So because 'THEY' come on the moors a lot 'THEY' have more rights than others. If the dogs went crazy whilst on a lead, proves they haven't trained it well. I have dogs too, we go on walks a lot. They are always on leads and they do as they were trained. I even feel confident to have them off leads, but they never run off, go crazy and ALWAYS respond to my commands. Any way, some great shots there, seems a lovely place that I will have to go.

  • @paulbeachcroft3323
    @paulbeachcroft3323 Рік тому +3

    Dog walkers and their dogs are a bloody nuisance for us bird watchers……and more particularly for the birds…..

  • @paulreynolds9003
    @paulreynolds9003 9 місяців тому

    Red kites not good for the grouse. And we don’t get black grouse down here.