A "puddle" of swallowtails today--so pretty!  I haven't thought to get down for that angle, and it is very effective.

Yesterday was a grouse, I believe?  When we took the one and only trip with our children, we encountered a pair of spruce grouse at our campsite on Back Bay.  At that time, none of us had ever seen one.  I chuckle to remember that our teenagers immediately dubbed them "chubby dum-dums".  They were certainly rotund, and it amused the kids no end that they would fly up into a small tree or some brush, start to walk on a branch that wouldn't begin to hold the weight, fall to the ground, act surprised, and then do it all again.  They seemed very tame, and we could get close to them.  It is a fun memory.  Every time I see a grouse anymore my mind immediately says, "Chubby-dum-dum."   

I remember that Spartan1 suggested that it might be easy to catch them, break their necks, and have bird for our dinner.  That left our soft-hearted daughter almost in tears--just the thought that anyone might kill them.   

We always triped in early spring. I remember two different people on different trips telling me that when they first heard one drumming on a portage, they thought it was their heartbeat until they heard the drumming a second time.

Thanks.  I can't take credit though.  Kids had the camera all week.

I enjoy tripping with them much more now that they are older.  All I have to do these days is navigate, paddle and cast. 

Tripping with the wife on the other hand . . .   

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