We have a guest photographer here on ToMM today; these videos were shot by my father-in-law’s trail camera that he set up in his backyard.
This forest grouse was quite active; most of the day, he could be heard doing his thing, no matter where you were outside.
Cliff figured out where the bird was drumming, then moved the trail camera to point at the spot where he noticed droppings on the mossy log.
This is what he captured.
Forest Grouse ruffle 1
Forest Grouse ruffle 2
Forest Grouse drumming
Forest Grouse strutting
These videos are about 2mb apiece, and will want to download, rather than playing in the browser. I had no problem playing them with VLC (you should download VLC if you haven’t already), but should also play in Windows Media Player.