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<\/p>\nThanksgiving weekend turned out to be a big time for grouse. We saw one in the crabapple tree again. We got a particularly close look at one in a berry bush (I think it’s burning bush, or barberry, or something with small red berries that aren’t edible by people) just off the front porch — it’s just to the right of the vertical post of the porch railing. That’s Charley’s car beyond it, with a red squirrel building a nest on the motor.
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and two less satisfactory but wilder sightings. Anne thinks she saw one when we were walking at Poland Springs. The rest of us didn’t see it, and she only got a glimpse. Arlene flushed one while we were cutting more trails on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The one by the front porch was close enough to observe in detail, if not cooperative enough to get a good picture. Looking at it through binoculars, I could see a ring of feathers around the neck, almost like a feather collar. I thought that was probably how it got its name.<\/p>\n
There was one more grouse in the picture over the weekend. At the Aububon society’s Gilsland sanctuary near Portland there’s a mounted grouse hanging on the wall.\n<\/p>\n
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Thanksgiving weekend turned out to be a big time for grouse. We saw one in the crabapple tree again. We got a particularly close look at one in a berry bush (I think it’s burning bush, or barberry, or something with small red berries that aren’t edible by people) just off the front porch — … <\/p>\n