Spruce Grouse (20140524) A Saturday supplemental

Well it is time for me to share a few more images of our grouse encounters on Saturday. It was just fabulous to spend some time sharing a space with these terrific birds.

This rooster was fantastic company as he pranced around and flew up to and fluttered down from trees.

We were hoping to see him "present" and show us his tail feathers.

It was a pleasure to shoot this bird even though the light was very poor.

He posed for us in all sorts of different environments, which was fabulous.

It is very hard to image getting an encounter like this again.

And a final shot of this terrific rooster. I have to come up with a name for him. Any suggestions? He actually got into some light for a bit.

Then later in the morning when we found the Mrs. and got to spend some time with her was really the icing.

Unfortunately she was much more intent on finding her man and recognized very quickly that we weren't him so she walked off very quickly.

So I will end this post here, I hope you didn't mind looking at the shots of these terrific birds:)

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