What the heck is a lek?
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
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King George III is riding out of Weymouth with a flea in his ear! Was he not welcome there? The horse showing King George on the horse’s back was carved in 1808, so he never saw it; he last visited Weymouth in 1805. Weymouth owed King George a lot. His visits put the town on the map as one of the very first seaside resorts. But what else could be riding into town? Down at the Smuggler’s Inn, both a smuggler, Pierre Latour, and a Revenue man haunt the pub, and another smuggler, William Waters, seen with a malevolent smile, haunts a cottage nearby.
Males great bustards perform spectacular courtship displays, gathering at a ‘lek’ or small display ground to try to impress the females.
The great bustard has a dignified slow walk but tends to run when disturbed, rather than fly.
The hen-bird on display at The Salisbury Museum was one of the last great bustards to be eaten in the town!