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AR 724
Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 1514 | TRs | Pics Location: Saratoga Passage |
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Sat Jun 08, 2013 3:11 pm
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That's what I was thinking too...food. It's right there, damn near have a responsibility to eat the thing.
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
...wait...are we just going to hang here or go hiking?
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Would have been pretty easy to catch it I imagine. Do they taste like chicken?
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Taste a lot like chicken only better free range organic and all that stuff, could get them with a 9 iron. Only problem, out of season and just a mom defending her babies.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Yeah I wasn't being serious. I enjoy observing critters and letting them be.
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Jake Robinson Member
Joined: 02 Aug 2016 Posts: 521 | TRs | Pics
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This happened to me on Saturday. Hatchery Creek TH. The grouse started attacking the car right when we showed up. It pecked at the tires then jumped on the roof of the car and started pecking the roof. Tried to get out of the car and it immediately tried to attack my head. Tried again with a trekking pole which didn't scare it away, it just attacked the pole, then tried to go for my head again. Threw a can at it and it attacked the can for a bit before attacking the car again. We started driving in circles in the parking lot to see if it would eventually give up, but it just followed the car around. After a couple circles it tried to attack the front tire, jumped right in front of the tire as we were driving and got run over. Overall a very weird experience, I've never encountered an animal as aggressive as this before.
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 583 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 10:53 am
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Had to be nest nearby.
One chased my buddy who was ahead of me. Coming from behind me his dog charged the bird.
Mike yelled Dixie No, even though the dog was on the bird she stood down. Dog really wanted that bird.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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coldrain108 Thundering Herd
Joined: 05 Aug 2010 Posts: 1858 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere over the rainbow |
I had one take a shot at my head. I heard the whoomp whoomp and stopped to see if I could spot the chicken when it came out of nowhere straight at my head. Duck and cover!
In the Olympics there is a spot where they meet for evening drinks, a big flat rock. It's at an off trail place I go frequently. The first time there I saw 5 or 6 hanging out at dusk. Clucking and conversing, suddenly they all launched and flew straight at me. Sounded like a squadron of WW2 bombers going over head. I've been back several times and witnessed the gathering each time at that same exact spot.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
Since I have no expectations of forgiveness, I don't do it in the first place. That loop hole needs to be closed to everyone.
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JonnyQuest Member
Joined: 10 Dec 2013 Posts: 593 | TRs | Pics
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coldrain108 wrote: | a spot where they meet for evening drinks |
Like with most of us, their aggression gets worse after a few drinks.
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cdestroyer Member
Joined: 14 Sep 2015 Posts: 1249 | TRs | Pics Location: montana |
once had a grouse hen do the broken wing thing just as I came out of the tree line on a ridge the last few yards before hwy 20 on the canyon creek trail. she had about half a dozen yellow chicks running all over the place. here in montana I have never had a grouse or other wild animal attack me and I have been close to moose, elk, deer, skunk, porcupine, rabbit (all kinds), squirrel, chipmunk, pika, rattlesnake, bear(all kinds) and billy goat.
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7697 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:09 pm
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I got some very close photos of grouse with my phone recently. You just have to sweet talk them. Music soothes the savage beast, try singing if they're aggressive. They like KRS-One.
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Roly Poly Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 711 | TRs | Pics
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Very sad. Just defending her young.
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Tom Admin
Joined: 15 Dec 2001 Posts: 17835 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:30 pm
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Sometimes a grouse's got to know their limitations...
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Brushwork Food truck
Joined: 18 Aug 2018 Posts: 508 | TRs | Pics Location: Washington |
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Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:56 pm
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‘Course, that’s the thing. A grouse doesn’t know when we aren’t a threat. (And sometimes we are). Too bad
When I grow up I wanna play.
When I grow up I wanna play.
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
Once a grouse always a grouse
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:07 am
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True fact: Stephen King wrote the book Cujo about a grouse, but had to change it to a dog because people have not learned to fear the grouse.
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