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Favorite Winter Nesting Spots
underneath the snow
Favorite Foods
leaves, buds, and flowers
of trees
Scientific Name
Bonassa umbellus
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Lesson
Plans
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Should Have Brought Steve
Among the roughly 9,000 things we debated in the months
before this learning adventure was whether or not we
should bring a bird gun with us to hunt some wild game.
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My bird gun, in case you were wondering about the title
of this journal entry, is named Steve. Not sure why
this is--but Steve is older than I am, and I've never
gotten around to asking where the name came from.
At any rate, Steve is in my front hall closet in Minnesota,
and we are here--on Stevenson Lake somewhere in Northern
Manitoba.
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We decided against packing any guns,
because the process of bringing firearms into Canada
from the United States is difficult at best and often
a bureaucratic nightmare. We figured we would have enough
troubles trying to cross the border with 600 pounds
of food and six dogs. We also figured we wouldn't see
many game birds.
Right: Yesterday, we saw a tree with about seven
grouse roosting in it.
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Today is our 6th day on the trail and so far we've
seen over 20 "chickens," as the locals call
them, comprising a mix of Ruffed
Grouse, Spruce Hens, and Sharptailed Grouse. Yesterday
alone we saw about seven birds in one tree while returning
from an unsucessful ice fishing day trip on Beach Lake.
We haven't seen any Caribou,
which I'm really hoping to spot because I've never seen
one in person. We did stop on Wabisi Lake (which means
Caribou in the Cree
language), but we only saw tracks.
We will definitely let you know when we encounter some
Caribou, but until then we'll have to be satisfied with
chicken-watching and eating our oatmeal and rice without
fresh poultry.
I'm just lucky Dave makes such a very tasty bowl of
oatmeal. Mmm.
- Adam
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