Its always exciting to spot a black grouse as they are quite rare.  They are usually in a group and this one was with two others.  I was lucky that it stayed still long enough get a photo.  Sometimes they come into the meadow fields but their natural habit is out on the moors.

We know of several areas on the moor where they return to every year to lek.  Lekking is when the males display their white tail feathers into a fan and call and strut to atract a female.  The black grouse is one of only 3 breeds of British birds that exhibit lekking behaviour.