Post by: Sportfury on August 16, 2009, 02:25:32 AM
For those of you more well versed in blue grouse do the males make some sort of sound. I heard that sound below me and the dog ended up flushing that big male that flew past me. Later when I walked down another ridge I heard the same sound. When I tried to find it the bird flushed from a tree branch before I could get a good look at it and was not able to tell if it was a blue or not. I can't really describe it. It wasn't a hoot and it wasn't cooing like a bandtail.
Here is Sofie after running over that covey of blues
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi52.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg6%2Fsportfury65%2FHancockAug1509007.jpg&hash=4139c9d8a7b4d57a7e098a7f66eef1ea775c2dc9)
Noble Cones
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi52.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg6%2Fsportfury65%2FHancockAug1509002-1.jpg&hash=6c33a7067c25277bd6c595d65ee8d330c2f7a55c)
The Hunting Rig
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi52.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fg6%2Fsportfury65%2FHancockAug1509005.jpg&hash=543bd17e1ded58d324b6b57b403473df7cecb27a)
Post by: ICEMAN on August 16, 2009, 05:27:25 AM
Grouse do make a weird noise, "drumming", the males do it to attract females...but mating season was in April..... I have heard grouse make a weird vocalization before too, hard to explain....here is my crummy keyboard effort to replicate; "zzzrwup..."
Post by: BigGoonTuna on August 16, 2009, 07:59:08 AM
Post by: Dave Workman on August 16, 2009, 11:09:49 AM
Sounded like somebody blowing across the neck of an empty long neck beer bottle?
They do that, too, and at first it's kind of eerie, but then it sounds like...like...the dinner bell. ;)
Post by: bobcat on August 16, 2009, 12:26:27 PM
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Territorial proclamation by male blue grouse is achieved by a combination
of postures, vocalizations, and movements that are collectively called
hooting. In spite of reported differences in hooting behavior among different
populations, current evidence indicates that actual differences are few and
tend to be quantitative rather than qualitative. Thus, the interior populations
(dusky grouse) have much weaker hooting calls that are barely audible
more than fifty yards away, whereas the coastal populations (sooty grouse)
have strong hooting notes that carry several hundred yards. The former
typically call from the ground but may use trees, while the latter more
often call from tree limbs. The gular sac of dusky grouse males is generally
purplish, while that of sooty grouse is more heavily wrinkled and yellowish.
The eye-combs of dusky grouse are large and vary from yellow to a bright
red under maximum stimulation; those of sooty grouse are smaller and
usually are lemon yellow, but sometimes also become livid red (Bendell
and Elliott, 1967).
During hooting the male partially raises and spreads his tail and opens
the feathers of his neck to expose an oval gular sac that is surrounded by
white-based neck feathers, forming a "rosette" pattern. Both wings are
slightly drooped toward the ground. In this posture (called the "oblique"
by Hjorth, 1970) the gular sac is partially inflated in a pulsing manner as
up to seven but usually five (in the dusky grouse) or six (in the sooty grouse)
hoot sounds are uttered in fairly rapid succession. These are repeated at
frequent intervals. Bent (1932) reported intervals of 12 to 36 seconds between
call sequences of fuliginosus, Steward (1967) determined a mean interval
of 24.2 seconds in sitkensis, and Rogers (1968) noted intervals of from 6
to 23 seconds for obscurus. Such hooting is uttered at various times during
the day, but is most prevalent in early morning and again in late evening,
primarily between 3 and 5 A.M. and again between 7 and 10 P.M. (Bendell,
1955~)H. jorth (1970) noted that although in both subspecies groups the
call sequence lasts about three seconds, the fundamental frequencies of
dusky grouse calls (95 to 100 Hz.) are lower than those of sooty grouse
(100 to 150 Hz.) and have much less amplitude. Males may periodically
move about between hooting sites, and while walking they keep the head
low and the tail cocked and spread, exposing the spotted under tail coverts
("display walking" of Hjorth, 1970).
Post by: Sportfury on August 16, 2009, 01:47:58 PM
Chris
Post by: ICEMAN on August 16, 2009, 03:55:23 PM
Post by: Sportfury on August 17, 2009, 06:48:49 AM
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on August 17, 2009, 08:11:27 AM
Post by: Dave Workman on August 18, 2009, 01:01:10 PM
I've heard blues make an anxious, moaning sound when they are hunkered down close by. This was broods in the early fall. Kind of like "mmmmmmmnnnnh!" I almost got one with my boot after hearing it make that sound, pinned the poor bugger's tail to the ground and he flew off without it.
Sounds like a guy blowing across the top of an empty longneck beer bottle.
It's why they are called "hooters."
Post by: RC3 on August 20, 2009, 09:20:33 PM
Post by: rackattack on August 20, 2009, 09:31:59 PM
Post by: Sportfury on August 20, 2009, 11:26:14 PM
Nice looking pup!
Nice looking dog. Are those pictures from the Toutle Unit?
Thanks. She is a handful. Right before that pic she jumped right over the top of three blues. Had no idea that they were even there. All of sudden she went from being out on a run to a bird finding machine. Those pics are up in Hancock.
Post by: M_ray on August 20, 2009, 11:50:56 PM
Post by: Sportfury on August 21, 2009, 10:39:00 PM
Post by: saylean on August 21, 2009, 11:30:17 PM
doesnt Grouse season start Sept 1st? :dunno:
Post by: andrew_12gauge on August 21, 2009, 11:42:19 PM
Post by: saylean on August 21, 2009, 11:45:14 PM
im a little s l o w.....
probably the vodka...
nice double! I popped an elk tonight with my air rifle.
Thanks for the clarification ;)
Post by: andrew_12gauge on August 21, 2009, 11:51:15 PM
Post by: Sportfury on August 22, 2009, 09:29:33 AM
Correct me please if I am incorrect...
doesnt Grouse season start Sept 1st? :dunno:
yea he said he was out hikin with the dog and shot them with his air shotgun kinda like an air guitar
LOL! That air shotgun came out of nowhere. Guess I been playing it to long! Yeah I wished it had been in season. 9 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Post by: M_ray on August 22, 2009, 10:36:13 AM