Topic: Blue Grouse

[Nomad]

 Has there been any sightings while you were out and seen a great decline
over the past few years......
 Were there any numbers in your sighting, there was some out in the Owyhee River area
in Cottonwood area but haven't seen any in the past few trips to these areas....

[MarkinIdaho]

We saw a couple up on Thorn Creek Butte a few weeks ago.

[Nomad]

 Thorn Creek North of Gooding?

[MarkinIdaho]

Waaaaaay North of Gooding.  Sorry - SE of Idaho City - Middle Fork of the Boise on the East of the ridgeline, Boise Basin on the West

[Nomad]

 Thanks Mark.....

[fj40mojo]

I'm with ya Nomad, back in the day it was nuthin for the whole fam damily to limit out on a September morning on the way to cut a load of firewood. I saw 6 birds up on Shaffer Butte (Bogus Basin) last year. Didn't go out lookin at all this year, but bumped 4 up while deer hunting in 39.