ML105336841
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - X
- Sounds
- Call; Non-vocal
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Hen with cackles and wing-flap distraction display--the snap sound at second 2 and 4.5 is the wing flap, but the first percussive sound is a deer fly.
Observation details
Black spruce bog with taller, pole-sized trees; lush Labrador tea and sphagnum moss forest floor; Female cackled and engaged in wing-flap display. Chicks had flown over the Labrador Tea plants and dispersed, but one chick flew in, practically bounced off of the hen, and landed at my feet. At that point the hen vigorously increased her wing flap display and flew up to a log. This all happened through luck and serendipity, as I had previously surveyed the bog with no grouse detections. I found these birds while hiking an additional Kilometer to pick up digital equipment I had left at one of my morning point count locations. Point counts finished at 9:40, and I had hiked over a mile back to the car by 11:15 AM...discovered I was missing things...and remembered setting them down at "Point 7". This rescue recovery involved a 300 meter hike through the bog, and I lucked into the birds around 1:15 PM. Maybe I should forget stuff more often!
Technical information
- Recorder
- Canon Powershot SX230HS
- Microphone
- Condenser mic on the point-and-shoot
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 1.7 MB