Just back from a MI ‘Ruffled Grouse’ hunt a few weeks ago.
There’s a phenomenon that hasn’t been mentioned yet, that’s the ‘crazy flight’ of some grouse, usually in Nov. It’s thought to be part of a ‘dispersal process’. It’s a time your more likely to see one going through a window, as they’ve done at our camp.
So besides bird I.D., their behavior can get a little strange latter November. Yes, taste pretty good. I’ve taken some home that were hit by a vehicle in front of me as they flew low across the highway.
Posts: 6732 | Location: WI | Registered: February 29, 2012
A real delicacy. Beautiful bird. Population is way down here in Pennsylvania. West Nile Virus I believe has hit them hard. Also, predators have an impact.
Posts: 65 | Location: Punxsutawney, PA | Registered: January 06, 2007
Originally posted by Pyker: Thanks. I wonder why it committed Harakiri.
Sometimes it just happens. I found a hawk at the base of my picture window one time and of all the birds that I think would not fly into a window, it would be the hawk. And why it didn't break my window is another mystery.
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Posts: 2116 | Location: South Dakota-pheasant country | Registered: June 20, 2005
I have a solarium on the back of my house. Used to get three or four birds a year kill themselves. I bought a bunch of stickers of hummingbirds and put them on the glass. Haven't had a birdstrike since. Kind of ugly, but I didn't like the birds getting killed.
