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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail=_A6591EB9-CEA3-4D32-B875-2E6354220E58 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Looks much more like a cock pheasant to me. James King Sou'west House 273 Dauphinee Drive RR#2 Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada B0J 1T0 1-902-857-1189 (Home) 1-902-857-1926 (Fax) 1-902-448-9899 (Mobile) jamesking@eastlink.ca > On Mar 6, 2016, at 14:49 PM, NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > Hi Rick and all >=20 > 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-publi= c/ > = https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/24931890214/in/dateposted-publi= c/ > 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)? >=20 > Could anyone explain the track components? Claw, pads etc. An odd = foot. >=20 > Nancy D > E Dalhousie, Kings Co. >=20 > On 2016-03-05, at 11:06 AM, Rick Whitman = <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> With good quality tracks in light snow, does anyone know if you can = distinguish Ruffed G. from Spruce G. tracks ? >> Thanks, >> Rick. >>=20 >> 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 >>=20 >>=20 >>> On March 4, 2016 at 4:39 PM NancyDowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:=20= >>>=20 >>>=20 >>> 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.=20 >>>=20 >>> 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.=20 >>>=20 >>> Nancy D=20 >>> E Dalhousie, Kings Co. >>=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail=_A6591EB9-CEA3-4D32-B875-2E6354220E58 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" = class=3D"">Looks much more like a cock pheasant to me.<div class=3D""><br = class=3D""><div class=3D""> <div style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: = auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" = class=3D""><div class=3D""><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; = orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=3D"">James King</div><div = style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" = class=3D"">Sou'west House</div><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times New = Roman'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=3D"">273 Dauphinee Drive = RR#2</div><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; orphans: 2; = widows: 2;" class=3D"">Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada</div><div = style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" = class=3D"">B0J 1T0</div><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; = orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=3D"">1-902-857-1189 (Home)</div><div = style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" = class=3D"">1-902-857-1926 (Fax)</div><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times = New Roman'; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=3D"">1-902-448-9899 = (Mobile)</div><div style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; orphans: 2; = widows: 2;" class=3D""><a href=3D"mailto:jamesking@eastlink.ca" = class=3D"">jamesking@eastlink.ca</a></div></div></div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br class=3D""><div><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div = class=3D"">On Mar 6, 2016, at 14:49 PM, NancyDowd <<a = href=3D"mailto:nancypdowd@gmail.com" = class=3D"">nancypdowd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div class=3D"">Hi = Rick and all<br class=3D""><br class=3D"">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?):<br class=3D""><a = href=3D"https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/25194830859/in/datepost= ed-public/" = class=3D"">https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/25194830859/in/datep= osted-public/</a><br = class=3D"">https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/24931890214/in/datep= osted-public/<br class=3D"">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)?<br class=3D""><br class=3D"">Could= anyone explain the track components? Claw, pads etc. An odd foot.<br = class=3D""><br class=3D"">Nancy D<br class=3D"">E Dalhousie, Kings = Co.<br class=3D""><br class=3D"">On 2016-03-05, at 11:06 AM, Rick = Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote:<br class=3D""><br = class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D"">With good quality tracks = in light snow, does anyone know if you can distinguish Ruffed G. from = Spruce G. tracks ?<br class=3D"">Thanks,<br class=3D"">Rick.<