From your lips to the weatherman's ears. I just hope it doesn't get too dry.
It is the tradional Memorial day weekend last shot of cold wet spring....low 40's today with a steady drizzle here in Glasgow. I have talked to a few differnt people none have seen chicks yet, but I have reports of hens on nest, so hopefully the chicks will hatch after this wet and chilly weekend and do well. Seems like their are still quite a few roosters out there dueling for hens. Guess we will know more come the 4th of July.
"I'm thinking of my blue and ruffed grouse haunts." jsdriggs
There's a funny thing about Blue Grouse behavior. At least in California and I'd bet throughout their range, that behavior
was one of the trick questions on Calif. Dept. of Fish and Game biologist tests. "What is the name of the only game animal that migrates from its summer range to a higher elevation in the winter?" Blue Grouse apparently will go higher in the winter and spend the whole winter sitting on limbs in conifer trees eating nothing but needles. We've shot them late in the season with their crops stuffed with White Pine needles with needles poking through their crop's skin. Raptors decimate them as a result but they seem to be able to take the weather OK.