Birdwatch Magazine, August 2014

It was nice to see Birdwatch magazine publish a write up of my close encounter with a female Caucasian Grouse in Georgia back in April:

There was a little bit of the usual artistic licence...

...but they published what I sent them virtually unedited:

My only criticism is that if this was meant to be an article about a bird that "is hardly ever photographed in the wild", then why use a small image of only the head of the bird (above)? These images were supplied as well, which in my humble opinion, do seem to show the bird rather better... 

Perhaps it was a space/time problem? Either way it was lovely to relive the encounter again.