Virtually none around rocky from my travels through the bush yes I have seen a few but not enough to bother hunting.  I thought they were going to be on the rebound early this year but numbers are still real low.

  If I make an effort at all for grouse zamma is we're I would head.  Shaptail numbers are at a all time hi in the hills around Naton.

Never before in 16 years of spraying, have I seen so many Hungarians.  There seems to be at least one flock in every field and as many as 5 in some.  Last year I saw a batch with 2 albino chicks and this year in a field 1/2 a mile away up comes a flock from under me and lo and behold another albino.

 Anybody in the south who would like to have me and the Griffon out for a day of pointing and gun discharge ....not so much shooting but chasing around .

  That would be great..Thnx Havent seen a lot of Huns yet   

I've been spending some time in the bush lately and not a chicken. I think we are in for a poor ruffie season this year.

Wifey and I went for a drive in the tri creeks area south of Hinton and never seen a bird,not looking good..

Oh well,a few more days and big game opens up...

I've been seeing a few birds, ruffie numbers are low but have improved from 2 years ago. Saw a small covie of four last weekend and was really surprised on how big they were. The birds are getting nice and fat with a great growing season this summer.

 I had a neat experience sheep hunting and it was definitely a first for me. Shortly out of spike camp we saw some ruffies, started climbing up into some spruce and jumped a couple of groups of spruce grouse. At tree line I thought I was looking at another spruce grouse but realised it was a blue. In the afternoon the wind picked up on the mnt and we ducked into some rocks on the down wind side only to find a pair ptarmigan doing the same. All we needed to see next were Colombian sharp tail and I think that would have been all the species in NW Alberta but that didn't happen.