It’s Prime Time for the grouse on the prairie. Breeding season is in full swing and the birds are dancing. It’s amazing that in native prairie where these birds are dancing the leks have probably been in the same exact location for hundreds of years. A lot of the Native American dances in this region closely follow the grouse dances.
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Beautiful work.

Great photos Tray, thanks for sharing!!!

Awesome pictures.Thanks for sharing

Awesome! Thanks for the photos.

Great shots. Interesting display, I’ve never witnessed firsthand. Thanks for posting

Awesome photos! Thanks

Kind of looks like my pose when taking a dump in the woods

Very nice pictures thank you for sharing them with us !

It's quite a show if and when you do get to watch them in person their colors are amazing and they are putting on a fantastic show for the lady's and you !

Thank you for sharing those pictures.

They stomp 20 times a second! How is that possible!
I think they just featured them on The Americas a couple weeks ago and I learned that

Super, thanks again for posting your great pictures, Charlie

you can see the bar on the center tail feathers.....that indicates a male sharptail grouse
Thanks for a little spring refresher

Thanks for pointing that out, I will try to remember to get pics of the difference in barring next time I’m out.

Sunrise on an active Lek is an assume experience as the booming begins before one can often see and the sound travels across the grass and then the dancing begins. Definitely a sight to witness.

awesome pictures

We'd rather not see a Selfie of that

Chickens are so much louder, I can usually hear them 1/2 mile away on a calm morning.
Hopefully will get time to photograph some here in the next couple of weeks.