Show Sage Grouse Don Spring Bonnets' Bonnets For Mating Season Springtime is the time females come out with their new bonnets and pretty dresses but with most species of game birds the males arc are the ones that dress up and around This event is occurring at the present time on Diamond and Blue Mountains with the sage grouse and Conservation Officer Udell Gardiner Utah Fish and Game states he is busy at daylight making making mak mak- ing trend counts on them SAGE GROUSE have established areas where they do their strutting and breeding year after year The males appear on these areas first at daylight to do their dances then the females come in to pick their mates By counting the strutting males year after year it gives the game managers a trend on the grouse population A BROOD count is made in June and The finest sermons are seen not heard they live in the lives of men and women |