Two similar finds in recent years have made me revise my idea of the
periphery of the Ruffed Grouse's range:

-- A road-kill on the crest of Union Hill Road, between Redmond and
Carnation. That one really shouldn't surprise, despite the amount of new
development there.

-- A young bird, extremely sick, in a parking strip about 1/2-mile south of
Lakeside School in North Seattle. Symptoms suggested recent grazing on
slug-bait, it died within minutes of my finding it. This one did surprise
me.

Even the second one didn't surprise me as much as the road-killed Sora I
found opposite the 7-Eleven at Stone Way and 47th Street in Wallingford.
Making its way from Union Bay Marshes to Green Lake? Took the #30 down 45th
Street as far as Stone Way, and tried to hike in from there?

Incidentally, I recommend long recreational bike rides, especially in
Snohomish County and the Snoqualmie Valley -- you see many more road kills
than from a car, and you can actually stop and investigate them.

James West

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From: Darryl Thompson <birds at cmc.net>
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Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: Ruffed Grouse?


Teresa and tweetsters: Speaking of Ruffed Grouse, a couple of days ago the
only close neighbor (in proximity) that we have came over to me as we drove
up and asked me to come and look at this bird that was on the ground
between our two houses, but closer to hers. She said it looked dead, but she
wasn't sure and it was quite large! As I walked over to look at it I could
see it was indeed dead and it was a RUFFED GROUSE...a RUFFED GROUSE?! I half
asked. What in the world was this doing here?

See we live in Edmonds and not in the section where one would expect to find
a grouse of any kind. I've been here thirteen years and never even heard one
never mind seen one! Apparantly, this poor bird flew into her window and
fell backwards about twenty feet towards our place. Other than a broken neck
it is unmarked and every feather is in place. While I was unable to get any
pictures I do have it in my freezer for mounting later!

Darryl Thompson
Edmonds
<birds at cmc.net>








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>My husband and I were driving/hiking in the Olympic Natl. Park in the
>Quinault rain forest this weekend (not that far north of Long Beach), and
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>saw two Ruffed Grouse, sitting by the side of the road (not together, in
>different places). I also wondered how common they were, but imagine they
>must be fairly common if we saw them two separate times. Both sat
>stock-still, one even as we backed the car up within a few feet to look at
>it. A lifer for me! - Teresa Michelsen
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W.Darryl Thompson