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Saw a few ruffed grouse & one Canada grouse. It sat near the trail under a bush & looked so short that I stopped & watch it to see if it was a ruffed, then tried to make it fly but it would not until the boy had thrown 3 snowballs at it. Then it jumped up into a bush & knew it was a spruce grouse & [[anxed?]] it. Found its crop stuffed full of leaves of Pica & nothing else. It was delicious when fried with bacon on a stick, the dark, juicy are closely resembling that of the pinnated grouse, but tenderer & more delicate. Found another place where a wild cat had eaten one on the snow. My boy had never seen one before, tho he has been here for several years. Saw a few Dryobates villosus & pubescens & black capped chickadees & heard a [[Perisarcus?]].