I have a Ruffed Grouse in my yard. Well, it doesn’t spend all of its time here as the home range of the Ruffed Grouse is perhaps twenty or so hectares. This leaves my yard as but a sliver of its space. Yet, the bird visits regularly, as an earlier posting attests.
A survival strategy of the Ruffed Grouse is to imagine that its variegated plumage enables it to vanish into the background as long as it doesn’t move. The plumage makes for interesting pictures and the stillness makes them easy to take.
Here is yesterday’s grouse. The bird knew I was nearby, but seems to have thought it was invisible.
