> Well I don't have pictures of it and my unusual yard bird isn't that unusual. > However, the circumstance of how it became a yard bird are. Last summer, > late in the evening, around dusk, I'd been working in the garage. When I > lowered the door, noisily I might add, I must've spooked a roosting Ruffed > Grouse from a nearby pine tree. When it flew out, it hit a power line and > fell to the ground. My daughters and I ran to it and thought it must be > dead. When we reached it, we saw it wasn't dead but probably injured. We > stood over it for a few minutes not sure what to do. But the Grouse wasn't > going to stick around to find out what happened next as it regained its wits, > flew away and scared our wits from us! Daryl Owens Oakwood Sent from my iPhone==========================================================Mailing List For Buchanan County Bird Club website: www.bcbirdclub.org Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/bcbirdclub =========================================================ministrative contact: donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =========================================================