My Grouse day here on Vancouver Island was sort of Crap...
Started off by discovering that a logging company had turned my Grouse spot from last year into a moonscape...even the creek, and the waterfall where gone. Nothing but turned up stumps for acres.
Then I decided to walk down a back road to try to find some unspoiled part, and was met by a big pick-up truck parked in the middle of the access road, and then 6 rangy very aggressive mutts charged out of the brush at me, and began to size me up circle etc.
I was cradling my 80 year old pump .22 in my arms and planning my next move when an old Indian guy in the truck started yelling "Bad Dogs", He didn't even get out to apologize or even to wrangle his reservation mutts back in, or even to simply say hi, he just kept yelling 'Bad dogs".
I surmised that one could forget finding Grouse in the vicinity with those mutts loose in the brush...
So I back tracked and headed off to Gordon River, and had a little walk about...nothing, squat nadda.
But a Km or so on the road on the way back to Lake Cowichan some sort of
dark brown ferret/ mink critter ran across the road in front of me, and while I was slowing down to check that out approx 4 Grouse ran across the road as well.
I pulled over and got out for a closer look, and to ID them, but they wanted nothing of me, and scampered off cooing, and clucking out of camera range up a very steep hillside thick with brush...while I was checking this out behind my on the other side of the road a big black bear decided to boot back down into the ravine, making a hell of a racket.
So I didn't bring anything home to eat, but I saw some critters, and took some pics.
I'm Kind'a depressed over the amount of development going on in this area.
Sorry if you have already read this boring rant on the Hunting BC site.
