‘Eagles need to eat too’: grouse moors take new approach to shooting
by Severin Carrell Scotland editor from Environment | The Guardian on (#4N2SD)
Big Highland estates turn away from driven shooting in the name of rewilding
It was over in seconds. High over the grouse moor two hen harriers wheeled slowly around each other before, suddenly, the female darted underneath her mate to catch a freshly caught meal dropped from his talons and took it back to their chicks.
"That was a food pass," said David Frew, the property manager of Mar Lodge, a vast Highland estate near Braemar in the southern Cairngorms. "You're really lucky to have seen that."
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