Black Grouse - Tetrao tetrix
Canon 800mm f6.3 for 1/640th @ iso400
A Black Grouse issues a challenge to other males on the lek.
Spring on the moors in North Wales opportunities to photograph migrants from as far south as Africa.
The Whinchat is an early arrival and the males appear to arrive ahead of the females.
Cuckoos by late April are well established on the hills in North Wales -calling to each other across the valleys. The Cuckoos can both be seen and heard, when in-flight they look like a Sparrowhawk and many of them when flying about on the lower slopes of the hills are "mobbed" by Meadow Pipits.
A Black Grouse issues a challenge to other males on the lek.
Spring on the moors in North Wales opportunities to photograph migrants from as far south as Africa.
The Whinchat is an early arrival and the males appear to arrive ahead of the females.
Cuckoos by late April are well established on the hills in North Wales -calling to each other across the valleys. The Cuckoos can both be seen and heard, when in-flight they look like a Sparrowhawk and many of them when flying about on the lower slopes of the hills are "mobbed" by Meadow Pipits.