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Index of Subjects Here are a few pics of a ruffed grouse in full display,also the female in the tree directly above it. I took these pics at my cottage about two years ago. Jeannie http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1337044052025930195FuMtcO Jeannie Shermerhorn,Port Hawkesbury Cottage....Cape George,Cape Breton jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>; "Cheryl & Pol" <cherylphillips@ns.sympatico.ca>; <cheryl@eastlink.ca> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: FW: [NatureNS] FW: re displaying ruffed grouse, and robin mobbing barred owl > I'm very surprised at David's report below, naively without doing any > homework, because in my experience most male grouse, pheasants, turkeys, > and > partridges do not participate in family matters at all after courting and > mating with the females (as many as possible). Does anyone on the list > have > any info' on this. > > By the way, I presume that David's "chickens" below should read "chicks". > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > ---------- > From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 20:25:18 -0300 > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] FW: re displaying ruffed grouse, and robin mobbing > barred owl > > Hi Bob, Jim & All, May 5, 2007 > I saw this display once (fanned tail, wings held out & back, neck > feathers flared, along with regular contraction and extension of display > which introduced movement) and, from the circumstances, took it to be an > attempt at distraction; equivalent to the broken wing display. No doubt > it also serves to impress hens. > > Circumstances were roughly as follows. I was walking along a narrow > woods road and, just as I started to turn to the right into the woods, a > male RG ran out onto the road about 5 paces away, displayed, then when I > continued to move into the woods it moved more directly into my path and > displayed again. At about this time a hen with the broken wing staggered > down hill from ahead and chickens scurried off in several directions. It > all happened very quickly; likely 2-3 seconds. > > So your male RG may have been attempting to draw something else away > from a nest when you first saw it. > > Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville > > Jim Wolford wrote: > >>>From what Bob related at the bottom of his note, that robin had better be >>very careful, since, accoarding to Bernard Forsythe, robins are very >>frequent prey of barred owls! Cheers from Jim >>---------- >>From: Bob McDonald <bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca> >>Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 21:00:26 -0300 >>To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>Subject: [NatureNS] Daytime visit to our owl survey route >> >>Good evening, >> >>This afternoon, Suzanne Borkowski and I scouted out and re-flagged my owl >>route in the Pockwock watershed..... >> >>....the high-light of the afternoon had to be a male Ruffed Grouse in >>FULL DISPLAY mode!! What a sight! The illustration in Peterson came no >>where near to doing "our" bird justice. We first saw it in the middle of >>the road about 100 m ahead. We stopped immediately and checked it out >>through binoculars. Once we had figured out its identity, it ambled >>slowly >>off the road and we moved forward to where it disappeared from view and >>Suzanne turned off the engine. Within a few seconds, we noticed it again >>moving slowly through the saplings at the side of the road. Apart from >>the >>fully fanned out tail, the ruff around the neck was fully extended such >>that >>the head was barely visible. Every few seconds it shook its head and the >>ruff feathers magnified every move. This bird did everything but go into >>the drumming mode. We never did see the female but there must have been >>one >>around; certainly this male would have been very hard for a female to >>resist. The best illustration that we could find is on page 61 of the 5th >>edition of the Nat Geog field guide. In 33 years of birding in Canada, I >>had never seen this display before - it really gave new meaning to the >>name >>RUFFED GROUSE!! >> >>Yesterday while doing some geocaching in Oakfield PP, an owl gave 2 long >>quavering calls in mid-afternoon. The bird was easy to find since it was >>being mobbed by a very vocal and upset Robin. It turned out to be a >>Barred >>Owl - only one was seen. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Bob McDonald >>Halifax >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.6.5/791 - Release Date: 06/05/2007 > 9:07 AM > >
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