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Index of Subjects --001a1134588e918bae052d4e92c8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 With good quality tracks in light snow, does anyone know if you can distinguish Ruffed G. from Spruce G. tracks ? Thanks, Rick. On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:12 AM, rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca < rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Grouse drumming is so nice to hear Nancy - > reminds me of trout fishing. The grouse will probably be quite > with the snow and all today. Seems the population is in the down cycle! > This winter I read a good book on Grouse - "Grouse Feathers" by Burton > Spiller. > Stores of hunting, fishing, grouse biology, dogs and growing up in a rural > area. > I could relate to it all! He also wrote a book "Fishin Around" where he > visited Nova Scotia > and fished with Guide Gray for 2 weeks in the Tobeatic in the 1930s. He > talks more > about nature than fishing but gets a few fish. A great read on a stormy > night. > Enjoy the snow > Paul > > > > On March 4, 2016 at 4:39 PM NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Lots of drumming in the woods this morning despite the -13C temperature. > Pileated Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpeckers could be heard on both sides of > the lake, as well as a drumming Ruffed Grouse along the dirt road. The > Grouse has been hanging out in the area all winter but this is the first > morning I have heard it drumming. > > > > And a Brown Creeper was singing. I have not seen any here this winter > until now. They are usually quite common in the early Spring woods near my > place so I am expecting more to be arriving soon. > > > > Nancy D > > E Dalhousie, Kings Co. > --001a1134588e918bae052d4e92c8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">With good quality tracks in light snow, does anyone know i= f you can distinguish Ruffed G. from Spruce G. tracks ?<div>Thanks,</div><d= iv>Rick.</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quot= e">On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:12 AM, <a href=3D"mailto:rita.paul@ns.sympatic= o.ca">rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca</a> <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto= :rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca" target=3D"_blank">rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca</a>= ></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0= 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u> =20 =20 <div> =20 <div> Grouse drumming is so nice to hear Nancy - </div>=20 <div> reminds me of trout fishing. The grouse will probably be quite </div>=20 <div> with the snow and all today. Seems the population is in the down cycle! </div>=20 <div> This winter I read a good book on Grouse - "Grouse Feathers" b= y Burton Spiller. </div>=20 <div> Stores of hunting, fishing, grouse biology, dogs and growing up in a rur= al area. </div>=20 <div> I could relate to it all! He also wrote a book "Fishin Around"= where he visited Nova Scotia </div>=20 <div> and fished with Guide Gray for 2 weeks in the Tobeatic in the 1930s. He = talks more </div>=20 <div> about nature than fishing but gets a few fish. A great read on a stormy = night. </div>=20 <div> Enjoy the snow </div>=20 <div> Paul </div>=20 <div> =C2=A0 </div>=20 <div> <br>> On March 4, 2016 at 4:39 PM NancyDowd <<a href=3D"mailto:nan= cypdowd@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">nancypdowd@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br>>=20 <br>>=20 <br>> Lots of drumming in the woods this morning despite the -13C tem= perature. Pileated Woodpeckers and Hairy Woodpeckers could be heard on both= sides of the lake, as well as a drumming Ruffed Grouse along the dirt road= . The Grouse has been hanging out in the area all winter but this is the fi= rst morning I have heard it drumming.=20 <br>>=20 <br>> And a Brown Creeper was singing. I have not seen any here this = winter until now. They are usually quite common in the early Spring woods n= ear my place so I am expecting more to be arriving soon. <br>>=20 <br>> Nancy D <br>> E Dalhousie, Kings Co. </div> =20 </div> </blockquote></div><br></div> --001a1134588e918bae052d4e92c8--
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