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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #45 on: August 10, 2015, 01:59:37 PM »

Saw this gal and 3 of her brood yesterday. Took the girlfriend out for an impromptu scouting  trip/drive.
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #46 on: August 10, 2015, 02:04:44 PM »
I lost count after 60 this morning up notellum ridge.

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #47 on: August 10, 2015, 02:06:42 PM »
You don't say....
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #48 on: August 10, 2015, 02:07:09 PM »
All spring I heard drumming all over the place this spring and have been seeing grouse every were while scouting. Hope it's going to be a great bobcat year as well
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #49 on: August 10, 2015, 02:15:35 PM »
I saw 2 ruffed grouse in my front yard this last weekend. They were in some shrubs scurrying around, then I spotted a red tailed hawk in there with them trying to get a meal  >:( . First time in 11 years of living there that I've ever seen grouse in my yard.
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #50 on: August 10, 2015, 03:21:49 PM »
Saw 10 yesterday riding my ATV with my wife...
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #51 on: August 10, 2015, 03:33:15 PM »
I've been seeing lots of blue grouse in the Central Cascades while elk scouting recently. Sure seems like a banner year for them.  :tup:
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #52 on: August 10, 2015, 03:39:46 PM »
Saw over twenty yesterday in the Lake Wenatchee area.
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #53 on: August 11, 2015, 01:33:56 PM »
10 days to go!

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #54 on: August 12, 2015, 01:15:08 PM »
I've been seeing tons of ruffs.  Up in cuts, closed roads, berry patches, open roads.  I saw one hen with five chicks today!  Never seen more than three with one hen before.  But lots of birds with multiple chicks.  Lots of berries, seeds and grasshoppers/crawlies for them.

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #55 on: August 12, 2015, 01:19:06 PM »
I saw 2 ruffed grouse in my front yard this last weekend. They were in some shrubs scurrying around, then I spotted a red tailed hawk in there with them trying to get a meal  >:( . First time in 11 years of living there that I've ever seen grouse in my yard.

I saw 2 last week in the woods behind my pasture in Tumwater.  I don't know how common they are around my house but they are the first I've seen in 3 or 4 years here.

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #56 on: August 12, 2015, 01:20:09 PM »
Last Saturday I drove over 100 miles on Weyerhaeuser roads in the Willapa Hills, from daylight to dark. Did not see a single grouse. I was planning to hunt grouse on opening day, but my optimism has gone down considerably.

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #57 on: August 12, 2015, 01:42:18 PM »
Last Saturday I drove over 100 miles on Weyerhaeuser roads in the Willapa Hills, from daylight to dark. Did not see a single grouse. I was planning to hunt grouse on opening day, but my optimism has gone down considerably.

Hunt the food, not the bird...and in this drought, go where the water is.

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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #58 on: August 12, 2015, 04:08:56 PM »
Last Saturday I drove over 100 miles on Weyerhaeuser roads in the Willapa Hills, from daylight to dark. Did not see a single grouse. I was planning to hunt grouse on opening day, but my optimism has gone down considerably.

Hunt the food, not the bird...and in this drought, go where the water is.
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Re: Grouse Forecast
« Reply #59 on: August 28, 2015, 12:27:45 PM »
4 days to go!

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