Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:02:43 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tyler Bell Subject: Re: Bar Harbor Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline This is also the case in NW Ontario where there are both Spruce and Ruffed = Grouse. Usually, I wake up at dawn and drive around before breakfast doing = some atlas work (Ontario is in their 3rd year of an atlas project). Often, = I will see either or both species feeding along the road edge. If you're = lucky, and there are chicks, they are too trusting and just stand there in = the road and the parents come out to try and herd them off into the woods. = You can get some great looks at grouse virtually underfoot. Your chances = of good looks are improved by using the vehicle as a blind. Another thing about Spruce Grouse is that often, when they flush, they = will land in a nearby tree and assume that their cryptic coloration will = conceal them. This usually works in dense forest where you can't see too = far, but along a road edge you can often relocate them at eye level. Tyler Bell bell@acnatsci.org California, Maryland Wave that flag...wave it wide and high! Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues >>> Warblerick@AOL.COM 06/19/03 07:44AM >>> 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=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com=20 with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================