As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

I was out walking along a trail in the woods after a recent snow looking for animal tracks. Tracking is a great way to find out who exactly is living in your neighborhood; all that wildlife we might ...

It appears that spring has already arrived in much of the Hudson Valley region after a mild winter. I have had reports of forsythia in full bloom in Kingston as early as March 3. This is a full month ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 21—Spending a crisp morning pursuing ruffed grouse is among the highlights of the fall season for Maine bird hunters. Ruffed ...

The Pennsylvania state bird is the Ruffed Grouse, a smallish brown-and-tan bird which prefers the state's woods and forests. If you've never seen one in person, the best time to go looking is during ...

Have you encountered any ruffed grouse in Pennsylvania that appear to be tame? Grouse that “show little fear” are of interest to the Pennsylvania Game Commission and researchers. The ruffed grouse has ...

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ALWAYS IN SEASON/ MIKE JACOBS: What bird is the Christmas partridge? The ruffed grouse is an aspirational bird for me; that is, a bird I haven't seen lately but hope to see soon. The grouse is on my ...

ROME, N.Y. -- Deer hunter John Page is becoming an ardent bird watcher this fall due to a wild, but extremely friendly ruffed grouse. It all began during the opening week of the Northern Zone ...

Members of the Ralph K. Bell bird club of Greene County study the sky on a recent bird watching trip. A recent report by the National Audubon Society revealed that the ruffed grouse, Pennsylvania’s ...

ASKOV, Minn. — Bob Flach used to hunt grouse. Not anymore. That’ll happen when your prey becomes your buddy. “This amazes me,” Bob says as he cradles the ruffed grouse he named Lulu in his hands. “I ...