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Almost all the bright colors here are now gone, leaving a mostly mono-chomatic effect, and we've had big leaf-fall here for the past few days. Rain (& light snow) this morning will accelerate that significantly.

Dumb luck?

I was walking into a bright sun and the wind was tossing the trees, so I never heard it launch and only just saw the wing movement as it flew down the trail. The shot was instinctive and long (~30-yards & with the tube full of 8's, not the 6's). When it fell I was surprised, as the mount seemed awkward and uncertain. Saw just one other bird off the trail to my right (didn't hear it either) that beat me to the thick cover (Jack Pine) before I could even mount the gun. Tough sledding so-far up here this year, so every bird counts double it seems.

Glad you’re getting out there and having some fun.

Karl G and I are headed up for some Woodcock, ruffed grouse, and sharptails for a few days in MI’s eastern UP.
Pasties are all ready.

instinct, snap shooting an rots o ruck is the glory of grouse huntin alone...thats why flushers of any kind, two legged or four, are a big help...gives you a split second of edge...how ah do luv hit so...

I should go berry picking more often...

Every time I see the title of this thread, I think of Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash.

What kind of berries are those? Cranberries?

Could you post some close up photos? I found some berries I did not recognize insideyes in some grouse this week.

BrentD:

That is a mixed bag of rose hips and hawthornes along with my father-in-law's old 870, which I use as a truck gun on road birds. This year is gangbusters for all the berries and the grouse eat both of those (I was picking wild grapes earlier today too). Lots of the highbush cranberries, chokecherries, and even nannyberries out this year.





My buddy was back today as well...

Those are tiny grapes, Lloyd. Do you know what they are named? Our wild muscadines are long gone. They ripen and drop in August here.

Lloyd thanks for the menu! Sounds like no shortage of food where you are at. No grapes where I was last week. All the mountain ash that was hanging 2 weeks earlier, is gone. Birds are eating mostly alder cone buds and ash (or maple) seeds with a lot of fresh greens that are still available at ground level.

The few red berries that we did see in crops were, perhaps immature Mt. ash, but they were smaller than normal and somewhat whitish on one end as if not completely ripened.

I'll post some pics and commentary about the last trip tonight or Wednesday.