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here we have mainly ruffed grouse ...damn tasty they are sometimes we find a spruce grouse especially up north a bit...they are tasty too but a much darker meat ..some people dont like them
birbs. i know some indiginous used to chaise them into nets to catch and eat them. i don't know if i've ever had any. i know i've had mystry meat with a lot of little bones, that might have been quail or grouse or squirrel or some kind of small creatures. that wasn't fish. smaller bones then cats or rabbits. i didn't know who prepared the stew. i just knew i was hungry and that was what there was. no it wasn't disgusting. but i'll never know for sure quite what it was. i HAVE had rabbit that i knew was rabbit. and like i say the bones were smaller then that. a lot smaller. not something i'd wish to make a habbit of. i like the idea of a cloned meat product without a central nervious system. i hope some day we will be able to eat meat without ever having to kill anything that knew it was alive or feared death.
We have them here though not as many as in past years. Walking along in the woods they can really scare the hell out of you when they jump and fly away close to you.
i had that too when i was growing up in the sierras, mostly in the foothills. you'd be walking along and almost step on them, hiding in the undergrowth next to you, then all of a sudden the whole bunch of them would very noisally take off all at once. that's how in the old times they could be caught in nets. open enough for them to almost fly through but tight enough to catch their wings. the net party would stretch the net across in front of them just far enough away to not disturb them, then someone else would just walk up on them from the other side, and they'd all just blindly fly into the net and get hung up in it. but all that was before my time, just something i've read about. so i never got to actually see it done. and like i said, i'm not sure if i've ever eaten any or not. but i sure remember them, the grouse, so many of them doing that. grouse and quail too.