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Published: 2009-06-08 06:45:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1127; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 0
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This grouse is one of the dumbest birds I have encountered. It walked out in front of my brother's truck which was barreling down the road at it, with no concern whatsoever for it's safety. I guess there is a good reason they are also referred to as "Fool hens".I would like to thank everyone in advance for the faves and comments. I am starting to get too much of a workload to keep up with. I will try and thank people individually as I can, but incase I don't get to you, Thank you!
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I love how the top of its head looks like a fish fin wicked shot
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Yeah, it kinda reminds me of the raptors in the last Jurassic Park movie. Thank you!
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oh yeah even cooler you are welcome
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Nice ruffed grouse! I never see them where I live.
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Thank you! Yeah, it really does depend on where you live. I live in Montana and spend a lot of time in the mountains. Even at that, I generally only see them once a year or so. Usually I just hear them, which if it's unexpected can scare the daylights out of me!
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lol. I only ever saw them back in Pennsylvania when I used to live there, but I never see them in New York.
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i really like this photo, cus it shows off his camoflage but it's still shows his character with his lil fan thing up
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Yeah I really like this one too!
I think I got like 4 good pictures before it disappeared behind some bushes.
I will upload some of the others at a later date.
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wicked, it's also cool bbecause i've never seen a photo of a live one 
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LOL! We have them all over around here. I see them all the time. I will be out hiking or something and because they're so camoflauge I won't even see them, and then when I get right up next to them, it frightens them and they will fly away with a really loud whooping sound. I tell you, when that happens, it practically scares me to DEATH! I think like a giant monster or something is jumping at me out of the bushes.
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hahaha how weird! i see peacocks where i am sometimes though that's once every few years 
hahah yeah i hate the sound of birds flying low over your head, parrots are the worset!
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Wow, peacocks!! Yeah that would be awesome to have birds like that around here!!!
We have a lot of boring birds here. Mostly stuff like grouse, quail and pheasants. And then of course there are crows, seagulls, ducks and the like. We also have wild turkeys. We do have Osprey, but not a lot in this area. You have to go a few miles West to really get into their habitat. Plus we have hawks and bald eagles, but you don't see them as often. Same thing with the great blue herons. As far as colorful birds go, we get a few bluejays and bluebirds every now and then. Haha, low flying parrots? I still think grouse are the worst! One of them almost managed to scare the life out of our dog once. My dad was out picking wild berries, and he had the dog with him, and the dog went uphill into the brush, and a grouse came flying out of the bushes making it's loud whooping sounds, and the dog came running back down the hill with his eyes popping out of his head. 
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aww i love pheasants!
yeah we get blackbirds, starlings and seagulls mostly..ah i've never seen a wild turkey 
hahah bless it! in our garden we have this really protective blackbird who chases other birds away, the other day i was out taking photos at the top of the garden, Lili (our dashund) always runs down the garden to try eat the bird feed, 10 seconds later she came running up the garden again actually completely like
sooo funny she's scared of him now!
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Hahaha!! That is soooooo funny!!
Your dog sounds a lot like my dog!!(different dog than mentioned in previous grouse story)
Have you ever seen the cartoon "Courage the Cowardly Dog"?
My dog is a lot like him, except that my dog is a big dog!
He is scared of everything. He's even scared of our cats. He slinks away from them and hides in the corner. Too bad for him that one of our cats just adores him, and rubs herself all over him. He get's this look on his face like he doesn't know what to do! Haha!
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Yeah awwww bless him! hahaha that's funny too...one cowardly dog to be scared of a nice cat! they are funny animals!
our other dog - Timmy - named for his "timmy tendancies", smells flowers when we're on walks..which you know the first few times you think he's just picking up other scents...nope he's definately smelling the actual flower 
loveee dogs!
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Yeah, my cowardly dog is so funny. He's also fun to harass.
I have a green laser pointer that my cats just LOVE to chase.
I like to point the laser at the dog so that all the cats will run up and surround him. It's hillarious to see the way he jumps up so quickly and storms off upstairs in a huff.
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hahahah awww bless thoug laser pointers are good fun
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Thank you my friend!
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