I still rember the first time that I saww a grouse. I had heard them drumming numerous times in the woods by our house but had not seen one. One day, I wa walking along a trail in those woods and stepped up on a log and was stepping down the other side with one foot on the log and one in the air when a grouse flushed from under my airborne foot. I thought I was dead! I only saw it for maybe a second before it was lost in the trees but it certainly made for a memorable introduction.
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