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Attacked by a partridge (ruffed grouse)

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(@perry-williams)
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I was reconing a small wooded lot when I flushed a partridge (ruffed grouse) from about 5 feet away. At first she tried the broken-wing trick, but when I saw her nest of about 8 eggs she sitting on; she got P.O'ed and started squawking and chasing me. Not wanting to upset the girl, I hurried down the line and got 100 feet or so from the nest. Next thing I knew, she is on foot, with the pin-feathers all puffed out heading in a bee-line toward me squawking and carrying on. I kept going down the line away from her and she finally gave-up after another 100 feet of chase.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 7:35 am
(@nate-the-surveyor)
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Another one for the animals and surveying category. (I love animals and surveying stuff)

Thanks for posting that. Nothing like a "She bear, of any animal kind!)

🙂

N

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 7:59 am
(@dan-rittel)
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Shirley Jones?

I guess Danny Bonaduce might get in your face though if provoked.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 8:04 am
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> Shirley Jones?
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> I guess Danny Bonaduce might get in your face though if provoked.

You beat me to it. I though it might be Danny too. He probably didn't see the multi-colored bus around the corner.;-)

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 1:13 pm
(@beer-legs)
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I had a wild turkey chase me around once. I didn't see it, but I must of been close to its nest.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 1:15 pm
(@andy-nold)
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I've been attacked by wild turkey too... Or at least I felt that way the next day. 😛

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 2:07 pm
(@holy-cow)
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Great Story

Sure beats the standard ticks and skeeters griping.

Mrs. Cow, before she was Mrs. Cow, was helping me with a fairly standard survey. She said she wanted to understand more about what it was that I did for a living. She ended up being chased across a muddy field by a Vietnamese Potbelly Pig. We laughed again about that a few weeks ago when we drove past that property.

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 2:22 pm
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Perry -

Better a 'ruffled' grouse than a grousing ruffled client !

😉

Derek

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 3:08 pm
(@beer-legs)
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> I've been attacked by wild turkey too... Or at least I felt that way the next day. 😛

...lol!

 
Posted : May 16, 2011 3:55 pm