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Ruffed Grouse Strutting In The Fall
#665877 09/26/25 11:59 AM
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I haven’t seen Ruffed Grouse strutting in the fall until this year, and now I have seen it twice.




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Re: Ruffed Grouse Strutting In The Fall
shrapnel #665878 09/26/25 12:10 PM
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Were you by chance riding a single cylinder 4 wheeler?

Out there doing it best I can.
Re: Ruffed Grouse Strutting In The Fall
shrapnel #665882 09/26/25 01:33 PM
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that is a beautiful gray bird!
Re: Ruffed Grouse Strutting In The Fall
shrapnel #665884 09/26/25 02:24 PM
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very nice...

never seen a grey phase bird, that grey...

Last edited by ed good; 09/26/25 02:26 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
Re: Ruffed Grouse Strutting In The Fall
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Now that the days are getting shorter, the length of day is just right for the males to have a surge of hormones, causing them to strut/display. They seek out drumming logs and go for it.
Which makes them easy targets for a few weeks, because they are easy to hear, stay close to their log to defend it, and can be incited to drum by the thump of a single cylinder SXS.
Occasionally one will run right out of the woods ready to kick ass. Like a little Banty rooster. LOL.

Just some grouse trivia mixed with grouse biology.

Beautiful bird by the way.

Out there doing it best I can.

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