Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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10/05/20 02:46 PM
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White - Great photos, man! Did you also get into the stupid-chickens out the road? Love those snow-shoed feet!!
Sharon - Very few ruffed in this country this year. And yes, the blues are at elevation. Last evening's catch was mostly about 8000+ feet near the Divide.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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That first pic looks identical to our female spruce grouse.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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10/05/20 03:07 PM
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Boco -
Awful close to spruce grouse (aka stupid-chicken, fool's-hen) but blues are quite a bit bigger overall.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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Hard to tell size in comparison,but yea the spruce grouse are our smallest grouse here too. How big is the blue compared to a sharptail(our biggest here)
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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10/05/20 03:11 PM
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White17 -
According to my not-so-particular palate, those ruffies are about the finest eating bird on the planet, although nothing wrong with ptarmigan (any of the three species), blue grouse, or even spruce grouse, as long as they're still eating berries. Once they convert over to spruce needles, I wouldn't eat them with your mouth.
Jack
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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Blue grouse imo are the best eating of the grouse, those thick white breasts are fantastic. I was a little disappointed when I found that the first spruce grouse I shot had dark breast meat; I had assumed it would be white like blue grouse. p.s. I guess us guys on the west coast are now suppose to call them dusky grouse; they're still blues to me.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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I would love to have one or two to mount.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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10/05/20 03:21 PM
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waggler -
Seein' how you bounce back and forth, have you tried the Sooty Grouse from SE Alaska? When they were "blue grouse" I thought they tasted pretty darned good. Now that they're converted to "Sooty Grouse", I wonder if they changed the flavor along with the name?
I'm generally pretty good about keeping up with all the name changes from the AOU, but in this case, I think they'll always be blue grouse to me.
Jack
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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waggler -
Seein' how you bounce back and forth, have you tried the Sooty Grouse from SE Alaska? When they were "blue grouse" I thought they tasted pretty darned good. Now that they're converted to "Sooty Grouse", I wonder if they changed the flavor along with the name?
I'm generally pretty good about keeping up with all the name changes from the AOU, but in this case, I think they'll always be blue grouse to me.
Jack No, I haven't tried the ones from SE, but I would imagine they eat the same stuff as the blues in Washington. I have heard that they can become a little strong tasting in the winter when they have been feeding exclusively on conifer needles, however the ones I shoot are in the fall when they have been eating mostly on berries and thing like that.
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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Boco -
I weighed each of the last few birds taken. Only 2 were adults and they were at 2 lbs, 1 oz; and 2.0 lbs 0 oz. The YOY birds were 1 lb, 13.5 oz; 1 lb, 14.0 oz; 2 lb, 3.0 oz; 2 lb, 1 oz. (Adults at 836 and 907 grams; YOY at 836, 850, 992, and 935 grams). Our spruce grouse are barely a pound down here, so the blues are nearly twice the mass.
Jack
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Re: Blue Grouse (aka Dusky Grouse)
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Boco -
I weighed each of the last few birds taken. Only 2 were adults and they were at 2 lbs, 1 oz; and 2.0 lbs 0 oz. The YOY birds were 1 lb, 13.5 oz; 1 lb, 14.0 oz; 2 lb, 3.0 oz; 2 lb, 1 oz. (Adults at 836 and 907 grams; YOY at 836, 850, 992, and 935 grams). Our spruce grouse are barely a pound down here, so the blues are nearly twice the mass.
Jack So the Blues are Catholic ?
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