Grouse Drumming Survey
Minnesota's grouse drumming survey data has been released and is up over last Spring. The biologists are quick to point out that the conditions (weather) during the survey period were excellent and may have impacted the numbers. They also caution reading too much into the numbers as there were heavy rains and flooding in the grouse core area during the brooding period.
In any event, it's nice to start to see some numbers as we look to the coming season. Iowa and Missouri start their roadside bird counts in August. The anticipation is building at our house.
Here's a link to the MN survey: https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/wildli...urvey_2022.pdf
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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