moors

"Unfortunately we do not have that in the rest of the UK. We need to see wider licensing particularly for grouse moors in England and pheasant and partridge shooting in the lowlands of the UK."

Cutting our losses with the stonechats, we head back to his car and on to the road over the moors to Teesdale.

On a warm day in May, the island smelled the way it always had: a bracing scent of salt brine and peppery bayberry from the protected moors that cover most of its surface.

Over the years many birds of prey, or raptors, have been shot, poisoned or have simply disappeared on Scotland's grouse moors.

The species survival fund will also support a partnership of schools, farmers, and landowners across the mid-Cornwall moors area to restore woodland and heathland, as well as species-rich acidic grasslands.