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Index of Subjects 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 > > > > > -- > ################# > Dr.R.B.Stern, > P.O. Box 300, > Port Williams, > N.S., Canada, > B0P 1T0 > Richard Stern, > Port Williams, NS, Canada > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### -- Rick Whitman
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