ML571455171

Age and sex

Adult Male - 1

Behaviors

Courtship, display, or copulation

Observation details

Heard low drumming sounds, and looked southbound past gravel road to see one individual flapping (male creating the sounds). Then heard (faint, high-pitched calls, almost whiny; and a few louder chicken-like clucks) and visually located another adult (maybe a female?) individual, moving about the ground on a small slope along the gravel road. That is the individual seen by a couple who walked by and told me they saw a grouse at close range along the road at that spot). ... Then I kept walking and saw the adult male individual (through some trees) standing on the log where I had observed its courtship rites. It was watching me, so I quietly took a couple pictures and moved on. ... (Posted a cropped image from one of a few digiscoped photos of the adult on the ground, to post eventually. ... Posted audio recording of (adult individual along the road). ... Then posted cropped images from two digiscoped photos of the male standing on the log!)

Technical information

Model

SM-G950U1

ISO

64

Focal length

4.3 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/1.7

Shutter speed

0.01 sec

Dimensions

865 pixels x 1153 pixels

Original file size

559.52 KB