when stepped upon, one may stealthily 
approach to within a few feet of where 
the unsuspecting bird is sitting, but 
when it hears the least sign of danger 
it bursts from its ingenious retreat 
with a shower of snow and a whir of 
wings. Frequently as many as a dozen 
or twenty birds may be flushed from 
the snow on an acre or two. 
If the weather during the day is 
warm, and cold at night, the crust may 
prevent the grouse from roosting in 
this way, and under such conditions 
they commonly seek out the balsam 
groves and spruce swamps. Never 
shall I forget a certain January even- 
ing when I decided to watch a group 
of grouse go to roost. Some consider- 
able time before dusk I approached the 
balsam grove in which they were ac- 
customed to spend the night and took 
a position with my back against a small 
tree, beneath the balsams under which 
the most manure had accumulated. 
] HAD not remained long before I 
heard the sound of wings striking 
against branches as a “partridge” flew 
from tree to tree seeking buds. Others 
followed in leisurely manner and each 
filled its crop with the buds of iron- 
wood and poplar. It was fast becoming 
twilight when the first bird flew to the 
ground. The others soon followed, 
alighting on all sides of the grove. Two 
birds approached the trees under which 
T stood—walking and running, with 
their heads bobbing back and forth like 
pigeons’. These two birds evidently 
recognized me as being something for- 
eign to the place, for each walked all 
around me and surveyed me from all 
angles. One walked within two feet 
of my foot without showing any very 
great alarm. 
F INALLY both were content to let me 
pass as a stump and after each had 
swallowed several mouthfuls of snow, 
flew into the trees, one to my left and 
one to my right. They settled down 
about eight feet from the ground and 
about two feet from the trunks of the 
trees. Here, with many soft, melodious 
notes that would have been _in- 
audible a few feet farther away, they 
squatted down upon the branches, call- 
ing and answering one another from 
time to time. I was able to watch them 
quite carefully as they were but eight 
or ten feet from my head. The other 
birds of the group did precisely as the 
two nearest me had done, and I noted 
that the habit of swallowing snow be- 
fore flying into the trees was common to 
each one. As I stood there, wishing 
that I need not startle the covey on 
my crunching footsteps when I should 
leave, the full mon rose from behind the 
dense maple woods and far back in the 
spruce swamp a Great Horned Owl in- 
quired “Who” I was. I turned, and as 
{ left several of the frightened grouse 
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