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Originally Posted by Dean Romig View Post
Grouse chicks have hatched and most of the best New England coverts are being pounded with torrential downpours...

One of the biggest causes of grouse chick mortality is pnuemonia from these long soaking rains.

sadly too true

as one biologist said

"a wet chick is a dead chick"
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