Taken a while back in April I think, from a location about 45 mins from the house in deepest North Yorkshire. These birds roam freely across the Moors, only maintained by the Ghillie's and Game Keepers leading up to the Glorious 12th - shooting season.
You can either get the skittish birds or the ones that occasionally work with you, but in the nine years of visiting this location I have never had one sitting on the coarse & heather with their feet visible, they have always been masked, or you get them running across some grass or the road. Quite literally this was shooting on the fly, techs, well f/8, more SS, head more towards me and a couple of revised tweaks on the 5DIV, but it will do for the moment, may try again at the end of the month if the Little Owl hasn't become a parent, or the Hares find themselves more in the open with the Rapeseed fields being cut.
Thanks to those who posted or viewed on the last posting.
Steve
Subject: Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus) standing on heather
Location: UK
Camera: Canon EOS 5DIV
Lens: 200-400f/4 HH
Exposure: 1/800s at f/5.6 ISO640
Original format: Portrait, FF on width, slight crop from the top
Processed via: LRCC Classic & PSCC2019