Grouse butts
It takes deep snow to show them up sometimes. Marching up the hillside, like little stitches in white linen, a line of grouse butts - small stone, wood and turf constructions that provide cover for the waiting guns, as the birds are driven towards the butts by lines of beaters. On the inappropriately named 'Glorious Twelfth' (the opening of the grouse shooting season on 12 August), thousands of birds may be shot each year.
I prefer the butts covered in snow, and silent.
Me too.
ReplyDeletebeautiful photos..
ReplyDeleteHow neat. I wouldnt have noticed them without you pointing them out. lol
ReplyDeleteI think I would too,very hot here, nice to think snow.
ReplyDeleteHi Linda
ReplyDeleteIt looks so peaceful... I love such place to meditate :)
I'm agree...much better when they are silent in the snow, like little stitches in white linen.
ReplyDeleteI'll second that, silent butts are the best.
ReplyDeleteThey look like polar bears on a pilgrimage.
ReplyDeleteI love the photos. Grouse are very interesting birds.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is amazing that we share a common language, yet so many of the words and phrases that you use have to be explained to me!
ReplyDeleteDoes American English present the same challenge to you, i wonder?
As an avid grouse hunter, I had to check out your post--what a strange thing, to drive birds toward the gunners! Here in the States it's a matter of hiking the hills with a dog.
ReplyDeleteSecond photo look like it was shot in moon.
ReplyDeleteI would say that I prefer them snow-covered, dormant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for showing your covered butts.
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