A Year in the Life of a Grouse Moor

We follow the work on a Scottish sporting estate for a whole year - shooting grouse, then pheasants, catching hares with eagles, watching nature at its most wonderful, block cocks lekking and breathing life into the landscape.
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Why shoot game birds?
Game is wild, natural and free range, and it is one of the healthiest meats available today. It is low in cholesterol and high in protein. Results from research commissioned by the Game-to-Eat campaign (Leatherhead Food International Research 2006) suggest that there are real health benefits to eating game. Both pheasant and partridge contain high levels of iron, protein, vitamin B(6) and selenium, which helps to protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.
In addition to the nutritional benefits of game, game shooting is worth £2 billion annually to the rural economy and supports 74,000 jobs. There are 480,000 (UK government figures) active game shooters in the UK who enjoy bird shooting under the principles of the Code of Good Shooting Practice.
More than 2 million hectares are actively managed for shooting in the UK creating proven (PACEC, 2014) conservation benefits and preserving important habitats for a diverse range of flora and fauna, in particular farmland birds. UK shooting providers spend £5.4 million on cover crop seeds every year and maintain over 25,000ha of wild-bird cover.
Why shoot Mountain hare?
There are thought to be more than 432,500 Mountain Hares in the UK. Mountain hares thrive on heather moorland and can reach particularly high densities on managed grouse moors. At high densities the species can cause damage to agricultural crops and young forestry.
The active management of heather moorland including predator control and rotational burning, provides excellent habitat for both red grouse and mountain hares, both species feeding on young heather shoots.
Hares can sustain high levels of ticks and the tick-borne louping-ill virus, bringing them into conflict with red grouse. Therefore, hare numbers may need to be sensitively managed to suppress parasitic ticks and diseases such as Lyme disease.

[@wilfriedpenasse4707]

Fantastic and fascinating film. Lost my heart on Scotland years ago and every time I watch this film I hope returning there !!

[@viktorlundgren1464]

Here in sweden the black grouse is actually very common, if you get up a early autum morning there is a good chance that you will hear the lek. The numbers are often over 20 and the lek almost always plays at big mires. Over the last few years the population has increased and are now in record numbers.

[@d3m0ndancer]

An excellent piece of filming...... You do not realise or appreciate how much work, by so many people, goes on in the background to run an estate shoot....... Once again ....Really well done.

[@redgolfpeanut]

one of the best mooreland films i have ever seen very well done for a great episode

[@jackfutcher4293]

This filming is top class! I'm completely obsessed with this vid, iv now watch it five times!!! Bring on the season!!!!!

[@MrPh30]

One of the best films, showing how moor conssrvation benefit everybody

[@SwissPro224]

That was so nice, I had a tear in my eye!

[@billiebleach7889]

Nice, that land-management with fire. Didn't know they did this in West-Europe...very nice video. Beautiful imagery. Thanks

[@davidsammels2124]

Absolutely brilliant video, they should show this on countryfile . Good to see a lot of girls in the beating line , it’s for everyone to just enjoy our beautiful country. A plethora of different species to look out for on these shooting estates 👏👏 well done.

[@localg100]

great filming,, scenery, editing and narration, well done

[@timrobinson2984]

fantastic,but you omitted killing rapters, that spoilt it for me,

[@patrickeast3404]

YES fieldsports channel, smashed it great episode!!

[@NoliCrociCacciaPesca]

i love grouse...fantastic!!!

[@kellyshepherd5904]

Thank you for an amazing film.

[@kwolton2]

Absolutely brilliant, well done!

[@leshark01]

Best episode ever, well done!!

[@HuntersVermin]

Absolutely brilliant.

[@paul2001anderson]

amazing . best episode yet !

[@nicke6394]

Excellent film!

[@terrywright5306]

A really great episode. thanks

[@stevem3461]

Fantastic film

[@jpresq8185]

wonderful, very well put together piece. bbc countryfile this is reality.. Take note

[@bobthebarsteward]

A fascinating film, beautifully filmed, this is the countryside and is the sort of feature which should be on Countryfile, not some mind numbing tale of a dead poet and the house they used to live in!

[@billiebleach7889]

This is a wonderful production...really guys, great filming with the right atmosphere and captivating narration. With new technology like drones,...this kind of videos comes within the reach of "lower budget"production (no offense whatsoever, on the contrary). Great work guys, hat off.

[@GB_Reloading]

that was an amazing episode!

[@prasannagunarathna3475]

At the beginning part of the video, (around 2.20 sec) scene: the person carrying a sprayer is wearing a nice pair of leather boots. Would you please be able to mention which brand it was ??

[@markfisher1437]

Fantastic.

[@prasannagunarathna3475]

Which of model of Side by Side shotgun being shot in the video please ? It's at the 3rd quarter of the video

[@drewsmith6066]

great vid thanks

[@99problemsbutafishaintone35]

wow Next on the list

[@iantincangleed4702]

A great film, whats the sound track?

[@antonellodicicco9176]

A cosa servono tutti quei lavori se poi vengono sparate come un piattello e non elegantemente con un cane da ferma come merita questo selvatico?

[@thomasdalton9504]

Gamekeepers literally fight fire with fire

[@Hy-Brasil]

what breed were the little black and tan spaniels? never seen one like that before. just a mix, a field cocker? or one i don't know about? looked almost like a king charles but...bigger? not as shaggy.

[@shug2795]

Excellent video! Predator control is critical to bird species/small game survival.

[@darrenbarkham7639]

Great film a Chris Packham ?

[@Vidar.m]

Do you shoot magpies?? Wow.... I wouldnt eat one at least....

[@davidtuttle3372]

The ignorance displayed here is astounding.

[@roberthiorns7584]

Still something missing.

[@nburrows02]

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