Glorious

Game is a big business around our part of North Yorkshire, where vast moorland stretches over most of the county, offering some of the best grouse shooting in the world. The one date that sets the country sportsman’s pulse racing each year is the twelfth of August, when glorious sunshine over the North Yorkshire Moors marks the culmination of a year’s unrelenting work for most gamekeepers. Unfortunately, success in their job is very much out of their hands; the weather plays a major role in Grouse season. If it’s cold and wet when chicks are hatching, the young are denied their vital diet of protein-rich insects, which they need to survive during their first four weeks.