Sun Mountain Lodge is where I found my lifer Dusky Grouse. I read the book
- Birder's Guide to Washington? - which said they frequent the brush around
the tennis courts. So I scoured the *lower* tennis courts for quite some
time, completely unsuccessfully, but at the same time adding Vesper Sparrow
and Brewer's Sparrow as new life birds. I was ready to give up, then
thought to check Google Maps to see if the Lodge had a second tennis court.
They did - and I immediately found Dusky Grouse in the green manicured lawn
next to the *upper *tennis courts.
Stephen
On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 16:51, B B <
birder4184 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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There are trees sort of nearby, but my go to place for Dusky Grouse is Sun
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Mountain Lodge. They are often seen in the open parking area, along the
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entrance road, near the lodge and also out in the sage areas. Great birds
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wherever we find them!!
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On Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 04:46:37 PM PDT, B P Bell <
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Hi Jim and Tweets
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Several years ago a friend and I were birding in an area off Cameron Lake
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Loop Rd. that was partly Ponderosa and partly sagebrush. We heard a dusky
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grouse calling. We estimated that it was 75 to 100 feet away, and walked
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over to a convenient flat rock to look down the flats toward where we
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thought it was. We had been there a brief time and the grouse (it was a
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Dusky) flushed from under the rock we were standing on. Very definitely
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ground-based in the sagebrush.
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There are other times I have seen Dusky Grouse in sagebrush.
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Good Birding,
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Brian H. Bell
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Woodinville Wa
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mail to bell asoc a t I s o media dot com
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