Couple grouse
- Thread starter jongun
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Few more this weekend. They swarmed my camp as I was splitting some wood outside just before last light. Could have had a few more but I had taken my limit in less than five minutes. My camp yard seems to be a communal stomping ground and roosting area. Gonna spend a week up there next week n bring along a sack of cracked corn to help my little woods chickens through the winter. Wonder does anyone else do this?
Was just preparing the grouse from last week and one of them was a spruce. Mostly get ruffles so never really noticed the spruce grouse actually smell strongly of spruce. Maybe has to do with the hanging for a week. Either way it smells quite nice and they're all in the oven wrapped in bacon with a bit of spice. Drooling just a tad.
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Tracked a few down this morning for the supper pot...
es-tat really you hoyt? I was expecting a much more aged and distinguished gentleman than what this pic shows!
. You is a young'un, bud!
lol, balled or not, he looks young and strong and could kick my azz with one hand tied behind his back, maybe even both!
Lets C you Looky, post a pic, aye!
es-tat really you hoyt? I was expecting a much more aged and distinguished gentleman than what this pic shows!
Well thanks partner!!! I don't get "you look young" comments too often... I've past the "5-0" and things start falling off soon after... the birds look small because I'm up to 270... gotta loose 20 pounds, but that can wait until after Christmas...
As for Looky's comment... he hit the nail on the bawld head!!! His picture proves what I have always suspected... Looky writes like a ten year old girl, but he has BARK on...
The Ramakko's cap was borrowed from my son on the way out the door... and actually so was that little CZ Bobwhite 20 gauge... nice to have a son who works a gun counter.
badgreenbird
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- Location
- Dawson Creek, BC
First 'official' release in 1950 (17 at Kamloops). Between 1950-55, 2606 chukars released at 8 localities:
Kamloops 305; Ashcroft 501; Spence's Bridge 72; Vernon 412; Kelowna 67; Oliver 499; Okanagan Falls 419; Keremeos 311
First legal hunting season opened in 1955
many other releases (shooting preserves, field trials, hopeful hunters) in unsuitable habitat (e.g. southern Vancouver Island) were unsuccessful
Where are them goll dang pheasants?
I do beleaf years ago the apple orchards of Brocklehurst were a-plenty.
Never ever neverever seen one around these parts.
There was a big #### that hung around the gravel pit up the way to the
Salmon Arm shooting range.
Hope no one wuzz oftended by the yews of the werd ####.
I do beleaf years ago the apple orchards of Brocklehurst were a-plenty.
Never ever neverever seen one around these parts.
There was a big #### that hung around the gravel pit up the way to the
Salmon Arm shooting range.
Hope no one wuzz oftended by the yews of the werd ####.
badgreenbird
Regular
- Location
- Dawson Creek, BC
That program seems to to bave been much earlier. Apparently the first quail introductions to the Victoria area were in the early 1860s and some Gulf islands around 1910. Introduced to the Penticton area in 1912, though some OK valley quail populations may have arisen from birds dispersing from native populations in Washington state.
- Location
- Victoria, BC (temporarily Toronto)
Well I went out for Ptarmigan on the weekend with a first timer friend.
It was pretty funny but also dissapointing.
Well, we went out before sunrise and hit the road. Up in Yellowknife we have to leave city limits to hunt. I usually do this by driving out on the highway and look for birds along the road. I was taking a friend out who just moved up here so as we were driving out of town I was talking to him, telling him what to look for, where they like to congregate, etc. As we were approaching the city limits sign and I started to slow down, it was still a little dusky at this point too and it was snowing.
No more than 20 feet from the city limits sign as I was still not mentally in the game and still slowing down to hunting speed, I ran into a flock of Ptarmigan, I grazed one with my bumber and they all flew off. They are hard to spot even in perfect lighting due to their white feathers in the snow. Add the dawn light and the snow I didn't see them at all (I wasn't quite looking yet either)
Alas, those were the only birds we saw that day that were outside of city limits.. Next time I will have my game face on BEFORE i get to city limits not after.
As usual, same with deer, etc, we saw a ton of them inside of city limits. They may be some of the dumbest birds in the universe, but smart enough to hang out in the right places.
It was pretty funny but also dissapointing.
Well, we went out before sunrise and hit the road. Up in Yellowknife we have to leave city limits to hunt. I usually do this by driving out on the highway and look for birds along the road. I was taking a friend out who just moved up here so as we were driving out of town I was talking to him, telling him what to look for, where they like to congregate, etc. As we were approaching the city limits sign and I started to slow down, it was still a little dusky at this point too and it was snowing.
No more than 20 feet from the city limits sign as I was still not mentally in the game and still slowing down to hunting speed, I ran into a flock of Ptarmigan, I grazed one with my bumber and they all flew off. They are hard to spot even in perfect lighting due to their white feathers in the snow. Add the dawn light and the snow I didn't see them at all (I wasn't quite looking yet either)
Alas, those were the only birds we saw that day that were outside of city limits.. Next time I will have my game face on BEFORE i get to city limits not after.
As usual, same with deer, etc, we saw a ton of them inside of city limits. They may be some of the dumbest birds in the universe, but smart enough to hang out in the right places.
