30 December 2015

Winter Grouse

It wasn't a partridge in a pear tree, from the song "Twelve Days of Christmas", but a grouse in an Autumn olive tree.

Overnight we received a wintry mix of sleet and rain, and I thought I'd see if I could track any wildlife in a brush patch near our cabin. There weren't too many tracks in the "slush", but I did walk up to a Ruffed Grouse that had been watching me.



The grouse sat on the limb as I took a dozen photos and then hopped to the ground and walked off. The grouse was much better at walking through the brush than me.

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