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Hi Rick and all We only had 1cm snow yesterday, rapidly melting, and it is excellent tracking snow. Here is a known Ruffed Grouse track and trail showing a swish between the footprints (tail drag?): https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/25194830859/in/dateposted-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/24931890214/in/dateposted-public/ Perhaps someone will come across a Spruce Grouse before all the snow is gone and get a comparative track shot. A difference may be that the shorter-tailed Spruce Grouse rarely leaves a tail drag mark (if that is what it is)? Could anyone explain the track components? Claw, pads etc. An odd foot. Nancy D E Dalhousie, Kings Co. On 2016-03-05, at 11:06 AM, Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
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