[NatureNS] Spruce Grouse in Kings Co.

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:15:15 -0400
From: Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com>
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Hi Richard,

I have slowed my pace & actively focus on looking well off the trails,
on the ground & up in the trees. I can only describe it as an
assumption that if I don't look directly at the grouse, I won't see
it. I think our normal birding is less focused, & works out very well.
We just walk along, see movement, hear songs, calls, etc. I just
assume none of that will work with Spruce Grouse.

Having said that, in this case there was a grouse trail across the
road. But the grouse was 20 ft or so off to one side in very dense
conifers. Impossible to say if I would have seen it ordinarily. But
the above is how I've been searching.

Rick.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> Great pictures, esp. #1.  How have you modified your visual searching?
>
> Richard
>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Rick Whitman
> <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In June I posted on finding a female Spruce Grouse & chicks at Methals
>> Lake bog, Black River Lake country, Kings Co. However, that location
>> is almost impossible to get to and, in any case, I wanted to find
>> another one. I have spent untold hours over the past 2 months or so
>> searching in the Greenfield-Black River Lake-Sunken Lake area. I have
>> completely modified my visual searching as these birds do not flush.
>> They just quietly watch you go by.
>>
>> Today I found a male on a trail S or SE of Sheffield Lake, which is
>> due N of Methals Lake. I have photos:
>>
>>
>> http://rickwhitman.smugmug.com/Nature/Birds-January-March-2012/20950511_VD8zMC#!i=1675803665&k=6dBWHNd
>>
>> I also heard Boreal Chickadees. Last Thursday Bernard Forsythe & I
>> found 3 Boreal Chickadees & 1 Gray Jay in this very same area. We were
>> looking for all 3 species at the time.
>>
>> Rick Whitman
>
>
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