Sooty Grouse, Philo-Greenwood Road


Tim Bray
 

16 October 2022
While driving from Philo to Elk we saw a lone Sooty Grouse on the side of the road. It flew off when I stopped. This was about two miles west of Signal Ridge.
About two weeks ago some friends encountered one on Philo-Greenwood Road just about a mile east of Elk. That one just ambled around while one guy got out of the car, rummaged around in the back to get his camera, and then walked around the car to get photos.


Kitty & Creek Norris
 

Love that you saw the grouse! They are such characters. We still get excited every time one shows up for us. They definitely are calm, so odd in a wild bird. I’m thrilled that the one stuck around for a photo shoot. 
Anyone hankering to see grouse, they live here on our property and hang out in our garden.  At the spring on our driveway we have posted a sign saying Grouse Crossing. She also host Mountain Quail, and Band Tailed Pigeons. All very much characters. Those Grouse definitely move slowly, an intentional walking meditation, I presume. We’d a birder come here from the Midwest to see the quail and the grouse. He drove all over the county in search, only to come back to the house where they were calmly doing their thing here in the garden, and showing up on our trail cams. 
Kitty

On Oct 16, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Tim Bray via groups.io <tbray@...> wrote:

16 October 2022
While driving from Philo to Elk we saw a lone Sooty Grouse on the side of the road. It flew off when I stopped. This was about two miles west of Signal Ridge.
About two weeks ago some friends encountered one on Philo-Greenwood Road just about a mile east of Elk. That one just ambled around while one guy got out of the car, rummaged around in the back to get his camera, and then walked around the car to get photos.