A little friend!

JayinNY · Feb 1, 2016

My brother told me this little bird always comes near him when he goes into the woods, about a year or so ago the grouse started following me and my daughter around, the last 3 days we have been going into the woods and it showed up, I haven't been in the woods since mid December. We walked around today than sat down on a stone wall, he comes the little guy, about 2 feet away from us. Here's some pics.

Brian G. NY · Feb 1, 2016

A couple of years ago we had a ruffed grouse around half the summer and whenever someone used a mower, he would follow back and forth alongside of it.
This fall, on two different days, I had one come up and hang around, once out at the barn, and once near the house.
This one had some real nice black markings.

JerryS · Feb 1, 2016

That's amazing! Great pix. Get some birdseed and see if you can get it to eat from your hand (with someone else taking photos).

Hank ABAB · Feb 1, 2016

I have one hanging around at the farm too.
Attached is a link to a picture taken by a Professional Photographer.

He is standing on his "drumming log".
A beautiful bird indeed.
Ruffed Grouse Red Phase

Married2Allis · Feb 1, 2016

Nice looking guest. Great to see.

vscummins · Feb 1, 2016

I have about 15 pheasants at my house right now living buy the horse corral I had A small stack of straw bales about ten and they have almost completely at all of them I think they are trying to get the barley kernels left behind from the red combine I am going to go get them some more straw bales to eat hopefully they will stick around

tom stalker · Feb 1, 2016

Neat stuff....never had anything like that happen to me

JRSutton · Feb 1, 2016

that's pretty cool.

I have a little bantam hen that does that. Friendliest little chicken I've ever owned. Follows us around like a puppy. If I'm working on the truck she'll hop right into the engine with me which can get kind of dangerous for her.

She tries to come in the house with us - looks pretty dejected when she gets the boot.

Not as cool as a wild bird doing it, but I can appreciate the funny connection.

JayinNY · Feb 1, 2016

Lol, I had the same thing with a golden comet chicken, she would always follow me around, I was working on a trailer light one time, I had to watch her she would take off with screws ect.

Billy NY · Feb 1, 2016

Great stuff for kids to see! We have them around here, in certain areas you'll be sure to find some, I've stumbled upon a nest or 2 over the years. I think they are probably the only game bird around anymore, besides wild turkey.

Brendon Warren · Feb 1, 2016

My uncle had one last year that would perch on his tree stand ladder when he got in it.

roaddevil49 · Feb 1, 2016

I live in town and I service my truck in the drive way when I'm home. The robins set up in the trees that are close and supervise to make sure I do it right.I also have a wild rabbit that comes by to say hi while I'm under the truck, it will get up the back deck and look in the patio door to see why I'm not out side working on the truck.

SweetFeet · Feb 1, 2016

Great pics!

I love the drumming sound they make.

lee little · Feb 1, 2016

That is unreal! I have never seen one that wasnt extremely wild. I always felt fortunate if I got a good look at them.

Brian G. NY · Feb 1, 2016

Hank, That is one beautiful picture. We always called them partridges when I was young.
A couple of years ago. my niece was visiting (city girl) and she called me outside one morning and said "I think someone is trying to start a 4-wheeler up in your woods".
When you listen to a male "partridge" drumming on a hollow log, you can almost mistake it for someone starting an engine.
I had never thought of it that way before.
Many, many years ago when my brother and I were just little kids we stumbled on a hen "partridge" with a bunch of chicks.
She flew around like she had a broken wing trying to draw us away from them but we knew what she was doing. There were a bunch of little chicks trying to hide under leaves and such. They all had little black stripes, kinda like chipmunks. Cute little things, they were! Little moments like that stay with you for life!

JayinNY · Feb 1, 2016

No, a partridge is a different bird, you think your pic
and my pic is a ruffed grouse or a spruce grouse? I
read spruce grouse go higher north and will come
near a human with no concern in a book called
Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes.

sms · Feb 2, 2016

As I have said before my dad was a logger here in the Catskills of NY and on one site there was a grouse that would follow him around in the woods, even walk alongside the bulldozer when skidding logs.

Brian G. NY · Feb 2, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:04:27 02/02/16) No, a partridge is a different bird, you think your pic
and my pic is a ruffed grouse or a spruce grouse? I
read spruce grouse go higher north and will come
near a human with no concern in a book called
Nature in Winter by Donald Stokes.

Yeah, I know it is really a ruffed grouse....but back when I was a kid, everybody around here called them partridge.

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