During that period one bear and five willow-grouse were shot; one wolf and a few foxes were seen.
Then at high speed he ran down the hillside, and the grouse birds lying low in the heather rose with startled cries and flew off to the further heights, uttering sounds as of mocking laughter.
Trivial as the matter seemed, looked at in this light, it had yet enough of human interest about it to decide him to leave the grouse alone, and wait patiently for the partridges at Millstead.
Jist tak a brace or twa o' the grouse hangin' there wi' ye.
Grouse is no more a hanger-on than any one else," said Lord Marney, rather fiercely.
Captain Grouse gave up, but not too soon; he was well aware that his noble friend's passion for controversy was equal to his love of conquest.
Lord Marney looked at Egremont pugnaciously, and then observed, "Grouse is a capital fellow; one is never dull when Grouse is here.
Lord Marney filled a bumper, which he drank off rapidly, pushed the bottle to his brother, and then said again, "What a cursed bore it is that Grouse is not here.
Captain Grouse is no more my friend than your friend.
Even Captain Grouse could not escape him; if driven to extremity Lord Marney would even question his principles on fly-making.
I am very glad he omitted to do so," said Egremont; "I prefer Grouse to Slimsey.
One must have people about the house to do a thousand things which one cannot do oneself, and which one cannot trust to servants, and Grouse does all this capitally.
But he enjoyed making the Vicar of Marney or Captain Grouse drink some claret that was on the wane, or praise a bottle of Burgundy that he knew was pricked.
The delights and the healthfulness of grouse shooting have been favourite subjects of sporting writers.
The grouse is abundant on all the moorlands of Gairloch, but its numbers in any season are liable to be greatly affected by wet or cold weather at the time of hatching.
In many years nearly all the first nests produce no young birds, so that by the Twelfth "cheepers" are still abundant, and it is far pleasanter to defer grouse shooting until a fortnight later.
When out grouse shooting one day I saw a hen-harrier strike and kill a grouse just beyond gunshot.
Heather burning, which is carried on in the months of March and April every year, in the interests alike of grouse and sheep, was in hand, and a newly engaged fox-hunter or trapper was assisting.
The grouse in the Highlands are slightly smaller than those on English and Irish moors.
Grouse and ptarmigan are shot in all the deer forests of Gairloch.
Mr John Munro has actually shot kestrels whilst carrying young grouse in their claws to their young.
The whirring sound is never heard when the grouse rises of its own accord, for the purpose of removing from one place to another; nor, in similar circumstances, is it commonly produced by our little partridge.
Nor even when this grouseascends to the top of a tree does it make any greater noise than other birds of the same size would do.
In the timber there were many signs of deer, occasionally a snowshoe rabbit was seen, and more than one brood of bluegrouse was startled from its feeding ground among the low brush.
At that time, this interesting island was heavily forested in some places with a virgin growth of tall firs, in which we saw the sooty grouse and heard it hooting, later finding its nest in an open clearing.
It was a rather shallow affair, composed of cedar twigs and bark, plant fibers, a piece of string and pine needles, and was lined with a few horse hairs and many Ruffed Grouse feathers.
I think the spectre of that grouse must haunt that sportsman yet!
Driving is certainly the form of shooting that requires the most skill, whether it be grouse or partridge, and is most fascinating when you can hit your birds!
The dogs quarter their ground beautifully, it is a pleasure to see them work, for grouse are plentiful, the shooting good, and they are encouraged to do their best.
When we had ascended about 1300 feet a covey of grouse got up.
Nothing but experience will show you how soon you can fire at a driven grouse coming towards you.
Later on in the season grouse get wilder, and the shooting consequently more amusing.
Walking up partridges in turnips affords the same kind of shooting as grouse over dogs; not bad fun when they are plentiful, but hardish work for petticoats!
I have finished the two pictures for the Duc d'Orleans; that of the Grouse I regret much to part with, without a copy; however, I may at some future time group another still more naturally.
I managed to draw at my Grouse and put in some handsome wild peas, Labrador tea-plant, and also one other plant, unknown to me.
Grouse were abundant along the fir-covered ground near the creek, and as I was in pursuit of game one frosty morning I chanced to meet Mr. Bakewell in the woods.
This is the species of Grouse of which we heard so much at Dennysville last autumn, and glad I am that it is a resident bird with us.
Drawing all day; finished the female Grouse and five young, and prepared the male bird.
One species of Grouse and one of Ptarmigan, the latter white at all seasons; the former I suppose to be the Willow Grouse.
And now the day is growing into middle age, and Jemmie says that we will find one more family of willow-grouse or blackgame and then take our mid-day meal and our siesta.
Very well: 'Once upon a time and very good times they was, there was a Mouse and a Grouse and a Little Red Hen and they all lived in the one house together.
The Tetras cuspido of Florida and the little grouse of Germany and Scandinavia do this.
We came upon two or three broods of spruce grouse in the road, so tame that one could have knocked them over with poles.
The Ruffed Grouse is also a bird of woods and brushy places, but at all seasons is more fond of trees than Bob White.
I also like wild game--Ruffed Grouse particularly; but I eat rabbits and rats enough too, I warrant you.
When Bob White and his Grouse brother fly, their wings make a whirring noise that is equally startling.
This Grouse is a Ground Gleaner, a Seed Sower, and a Weed Warrior also in autumn.
The young Grouse stay with their parents until they are old enough to choose mates for themselves; but the flocks are never as large as the covey Bob White musters about him.
Father Grouse then becomes selfish and takes himself off with some men friends, leaving mamma alone to hatch the eggs and feed the babies.
Thus does the Ruffed Grouse drum up his mate, as the Woodpecker hammers or the Thrush sings.
And that patient watchful Mother Grouse has as many ways of leading an enemy away from her nest as any House Mother could devise if her children were in danger.
The bloody mongrel let a grouseout of him would give you the creeps.
The bird, however, to which the name of grouse in all strictness belongs is probably the Tetrao tetrix of Linnaeus--the blackcock and greyhen, as the sexes are respectively called.
Though the red grouse does not, after the manner of other members of the genus Lagopus, become white in winter, Scotland possesses a species of the genus which does.
The red grouse is found on moors from Monmouthshire and Derbyshire northward to the Orkneys, as well as in most of the Hebrides.
The various sorts of grouse are nearly all figured in Elliot's Monograph of the Tetraoninae, and an excellent account of the American species is given in Baird, Brewer and Ridgway's North American Birds (iii.
They could not legitimately grouse this night with all the good things around so they turned their morbid thoughts to treks and predicted a move on the morrow, when every one would be laden with luxuries.
Trench life in the Grenay lines got very monotonous by July and the popular grouse in the Battalion hereabouts referred to the absence of the much-advertised Kitchener’s Army.
I took a photograph of the entire group and by good luck the grouse is faintly seen suspended in the middle.
The latter were for grouse and the others were for incidental big game which one must always be prepared for, whether one goes out to shoot grouse or take snapshots with one's camera.
In the meantime we planned and carried into brilliant execution a grouse hunt.
It seemed a simple thing to go out and get a few for our Thanksgiving dinner, so we gave orders to make camp and consecrated the afternoon to a grouse quest.
There were lots of grouse in the country through which we had come and all day long coveys of them had been whirring away from our advancing outposts.
Drawing: The Grouse Hunt] We spread out and beat two miles of perfect cover.
That was the astounding total of our slaughter and when the army marched back into camp with its one little grouse the effect was laughable in the extreme.
There was lots of game for our table, from the most delicious grouse to the oribi, whose meat is the tenderest I have ever eaten.
This species of Grouse is inferior in size and beauty to the Ruffed, yet may be called a handsome bird; the plumage being of a handsome brown, elegantly spotted with white and black.
They, like the other large species of Hawks, prey much on the white grouse or partridge, and also on the American hare, usually called here Rabbits.
The Indians informed me they never make that noise but when feeding, which is very probable; for it is notoriously known that all the species of Grouse feed very early in the mornings, and late in the afternoons.
This species of Grouse are in Winter of the same colour as the former, but inferior in size; being in general not more than two-thirds of the weight.
This species of Grouse is called by the Southern Indians Aw-kis-cow.
This grouse inhabits all the region west of Hudson Bay north nearly to the limit of trees, but is scarce near the northern border of its range.
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