Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:44:00 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rick Sussman Subject: Re: Bar Harbor MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/18/2003 7:46:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, gail@MDSG.UMD.EDU writes: > Also, you want to try and get to the first part of the road in to the > mountain as early as possible, we had the Grouse on the road but we were the > first folks there. Gail, This is interesting to me. When we go to Shenandoah Nat'l Park in the summer (we're going up tomorrow thru Monday) for camping we have very frequently had Ruffed Grouse standing either on the road (Skyline Drive) or beside it, when we are one of the first to drive in the early AM. Once I actually was able to walk right up next to one standing along the edge of the road, without it flushing. This mostly happens when it has rained the previous night, for some reason. After a rainy night, we get up early and drive along the road, heading south from Big Meadows, and find the grouse sometimes on the road or next to it, sometimes standing on the stone walls, and sometimes we find Wild Turkeys in the same way. It has always puzzled me... Rick Sussman Ashton,MD warblerick@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================