Today's Wildlife Encounter

[wharfeego]

Ran round Barden Moor on Saturday morning...The birds were superb, Curlew, oystercatchers, Lapwings, Snipe...

Those species do well on keepered moors due to intensive (legal) predator control; the moorland managers will often use that fact in order to justify their work.
Unfortunately some raptor species don't do well on keepered moors due to illegal persecution; never a mention of this type of activity by the moorland managers.