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Lloyd,

I am continuing to enjoy the narrative of your posts, but sadly since Imgur pulled the plug on any service to the United Kingdom all I and others in the U.K. can now see of your no doubt lovely pictures are blue rectangles marked “Content not viewable in your region”. 😤😤

para, PM me your email address and I will attach a link to this thread via return email...worth a try...

Another Mutual of Omaha moment here today...







Marlin Perkins's got nothing on us here.

First moose sighting for our bunch in something like 20-years. This is just south of where I was hunting today.

These are my brother's pictures.

My wife just sent me this. They're everywhere now....even in my yard at home.

It has gotten warm here again and the bugs have returned. So-much-so that I have ceased my hunting for cooler activities (my freezer is also quite full at the moment). Fishing is the standard fall-back, but other activities are also on order here.



My resurrected SUV here was in bad need of a clean-up (my wife arrives today and will need wheels) so a team effort was required...





Time and elbow grease still work wonders, even on this long-abandoned artifact.

Last year this vehicle was sitting in the back corner of the yard, covered in spider webs, rotting leaves and bark (sitting abandoned since 2021). The wiper blades had desiccated down to nothing and the cargo door would barely open due to crusted dust and dirt in the lock mechanism and hinges. We'd saved it from a flood here 3-years ago but had done nothing else with it since then (bad transmission). Thankfully, a tree never fell on it (several came close).

It was a gamble, but a local talent was discovered and turned loose upon it and it rides again now, thanks to his good efforts. Even the cruze and AC still work(!)

My wife should be pleased to have her old car back, even if only for a short while (it is now a North Woods vehicle).

In the 80 degree heat here, yesterday, I had 5 or 6 ruffs drumming in my backyard. What is up with that?

Are they drumming around you?

I am laying low to let Dusty recover and heal up as much as dodging the heat.

Brett: I 'haven't heard it this year but my brother says he has.

The warm weather seems to get them going. looking for love eh?

Length of day, the release of breeding hormones, and the annual dispersion of male birds.
Hatching year males have no idea if it’s time to breed or not but the daylight says it’s time to set up a territory.

They are the easiest of all grouse to kill.

Yeah i've been thinking about daylength. But usually it's day length with directionality, and directionality is backwards right now. The other issue is that our day length isn't that short yet, anyway. But it must be playing some factor.

They were going at it hard while I was out there. Looking for the site of the porcupine battle yesterday.

The length of day causes the hormone surge which causes male birds to precociously perform their meeting sequence.
I think I might’ve mentioned you can use the putt putt of a side-by-side to draw the young guys out to fight.

Lots of people pop them by stalking at this time of year just trying to get within 40 yards of the drumming log. Since drumming logs are precious, and are fought over sometimes, some people Keep track of logs that have a track record of drumming for obvious reasons.

Expect 1 pair per 20 acres.