this is funny - somehow my wife and I got on the topic of bands this weekend while she went along for a ride while I was scouting an area. I said I have known of banded woodcock (never got one myself) but said I have never heard of a banded grouse. now I have
when I come across those foundations on Connecticut Hill (or other covers back home) and look at the ground around them I always think about the folks that tried to farm that land, if that is better than the land they had back home in Connecticut, that must have been solid rock
congratulations on a good hunt in a great area