| I have considered it a privilege to watch fox cubs play, otters fish, salmon leap, and blackcock lek without causing disturbance to wildlife or landowner. |
| This is the best, as it is the pitiful foolishness of the blackcock younglings. |
| Now the way the blackcock got the idea into his head was this. |
| Accordingly, the decoration of the blackcock is confined to glossy plumage and a few ornamental tail-feathers. |
| I was so excited that I could not close my eyes all night, and could think of nothing but blackcock. |
| Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties. |
