Canon 1DX
f/4 500mm with 1.4
f/5.6
1/800
ISO 1250
Red Grouse hide, sleep, nest and live in heather. This is a purple coloured dense plant which grows throughout the glens and moors. (you'll have seen it on my other Red Grouse images). The buds of the plant is the main diet of the Red Grouse. In Scotland the gamekeepers and farmers burn a lot of the heather throughout the Glen. They say that it produces better plants when they regrow. I'm not so sure, as it gives the grouse less places to hide, during the shooting season. This one is standing on a clump of grasses, overlooking the heather, some, of which, was still smouldering.
Will