Re: NANFA-- off topic: wild Grouse attacks car, attracted to
BILL HOPPE (zzzzzzbill_at_yahoo.com)
Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:13:23 -0800 (PST)
In the Jackpine woods of Wisconsin I had male
grouse that would sound exactly like an old engine
trying to start and then slow down and stop ...then
start all over again and over again .Maybe he just
thought this was a smooth runnin sweetee .Or maybe a
female thinking she at last found a guy who got it
right .
--- IndyEsox_at_aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/19/02 9:33:33 PM US Central
> Standard Time,
> e_venn_at_hotmail.com writes:
>
> << haven't you read Alice in Wonderland? The March
> hare? >>
>
> Nope, but Liz has. She figured the March Hare was
> taken from something
> outside and prior to the book.
>
> <<Lots of animals go a
> little weird in Early Spring. Must be hormones but
> any animal that begins
> breeding at this time of year is afflicted with
> abnormal behaviour. >>
>
> I guess that is the type of information I was
> looking for. The close up
> pictures and unusual behavior of the grouse made me
> think of a fiction book I
> read as a juvenile. In the book, one of the
> characters (either the young
> ranger or the eccentric local guy) referred to March
> as the Mad Month. I
> don't recall the name of the book. It is the only
> time I have heard the
> term.
>
>
> Chuck Church
> Indianapolis, Indiana USA
>
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Bill Hoppe
Yellville Arkansas
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