The glorious twelfth

12th of August and the start of another grouse season. I grabbed my grouse finding equipment and dashed out to find them but for some reason they seemed reluctant to show themselves. Maybe no-one told them what the date was ... more likely they did!


"Pass the word
I’m a protectit bird.
They’re settin girns for vermin
Like stoats and their kin;
The fox is huntit and shot doon
And aw to keep me safe and soon.
Pass the word
I’m a protectit bird.
You micht say august
And that is surely just.
Aw is for my health
And a pairty on the twelfth!"

(Duncan Glen - Protectit Bird)