Numbers are down and have been dropping for about 3 years in the areas I travel to.  Have a pard in Hinton with dogs and he is still getting good finds.   

15:00 to 17:00 is historically the most best times to find feeding birds.

Grouse of course are where you find them but a good rule is if you can’t get your boots wet within 500m you are in the wrong spot.  Most other tips are BS.

On another note had a fella show me why grouse should be cooked and then cooked a little more.  They are full of worms.

I would say that I have never seen the bunny plague that gets talked about as in hundreds crossing roads and such. 

In my experience they tend to stay the same they are around.

Haven’t had a chance to get out yet so can’t make a call on it, but you guys got some anyways.

Hi Speckle. Question.

You mentioned a Sharptail second hatch.

Were those Sharptail's on the border of boreal subalpine forest?

The reason I am asking you this question is you might remember some fellow doing a post graduate degree on the movement of Sharptail from a prairie and aspen environment to boreal subalpine area's. Sort of interesting.

Sort of like whitetail moving into the Hinton area over the years.  And that happened before the great climate change where the sky is falling.

The first place that I spotted Sharp tails was by the Obed tower 30 years ago in old cut blocks. Since then they have spread out, but just about every time I see them it is old cut blocks that have started to grow back.