After several previous failed attempts in the High Pennines,and more recently in the Scottish Highlands, we were delighted to finally catch up with this iconic, but rapidly disappearing, moorland species – Black Grouse, in a remote corner of County Durham. We saw seven males and a single female – digiscoped from a respectable distance, to avoid any disturbance, and in poor late afternoon light:

‘I see you baby, shakin that ass’!