(1) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
(2) He showed us where a ring-ouzel was nesting in the heather, and a pet raven whom he'd rescued when it had fallen from its nest."