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NH Grouse Hunting Update: 10/10
Filed in: 2011 Upland Bird Hunting written by: bs
If you see this when you’re looking for grouse, you’re getting hotter, because you’re in the right place. This pile of grouse guano was found on a mossy log on the edge of a regenerating clear cut, but we never did quite catch up with the bird that was responsible for this ...
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Tags: grouse hunting, Pittsburg NH, woodcock hunting, Tall Timber Lodge

Northern NH Grouse Hunting
NH Grouse Hunting Update: 10/4
Filed in: 2011 Upland Bird Hunting written by: bs
In one word: YES. While it may not be comfortable hunting in the rain (especially the pouring rain), it still beats being in the office, dealing with all of those mundane tasks that wear us down slowly, day after day.
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Tags: grouse hunting, woodcock hunting, Pittsburg NH, Tall Timber Lodge

NH grouse habitat
Habitat & Numbers Update
Filed in: 2011 Bird Dog Training written by: bs
So we’ve been out a few times in the last week, seeing birds each time and there’s been a common denominator each time: young poplars were where the birds were found every time.
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Tags: grouse, woodcock, habitat, NH, Vermont

Monty impressed his NAVHDA judges
Monty Passed!
Filed in: 2011 Bird Dog Training | Monty written by: bs
Test Day has come and gone, and Monty proved himself very well at the N.A.V.H.D.A. Natural Ability test. For not having seen a quail or chukar partridge before, he pointed them quite easily during the field exercise and completed his water retrieves without too much effort.
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Tags: NAVHDA, fun stuff

Monty continues to get ready for grouse season
2011 Spring Report
Filed in: 2011 Bird Dog Training | Monty written by: bs
So far it’s been a wetter spring than we had last year, but it seems as though we have quite a few grouse that it made it through our winter. We had lots of snow for snow roosting, which may have made a big difference for the birds in making it through ok. Lots of birds have been sighted along the logging roads and I heard quite a few males drumming while turkey hunting over the last few weeks.
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Tags: fun stuff, NAVHDA testing

Monty with his Vermont grouse
Thanksgiving Grouse ??
Filed in: 2010 Upland Bird Hunting | Monty written by: bs
While it was very cold when we started (15 degrees), there was some sun, very little snow on the ground, and no wind, making it actually pretty enjoyable out there, especially once the circulation returned to my fingers (it took an hour for that to happen).
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Tags: grouse, grouse hunting, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

Vermont ruffed grouse hunting
VT Grouse Hunting Update: 11/13
Filed in: 2010 Upland Bird Hunting | Rudy written by: bs
All good things come to an end, or so the saying goes, and it was the same with my 2010 guiding season. The deer hunters have now taken over the woods for a few weeks here in New Hampshire, and also Vermont, meaning that our grouse chasing pursuits are limited to December, which is always risky up here.
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Tags: grouse hunting, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

Vermont grouse hunting
VT Grouse Hunting Update: 11/3
Filed in: 2010 Upland Bird Hunting | Rudy | Monty written by: bs
The Vermont part of our guiding season began with a bang last Saturday morning, as returning client Paul O’Neill and I moved grouse after grouse in one of our favorite covers. The pace was astonishing, and Rudy was in top form as he had great points on several birds, and made great tracks on several others that would not sit for his points.
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Tags: grouse hunting, Vermont, Tall Timber Lodge

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Grouse Hunting Season Stats

2024: 190.5 Hours
VT Hours: 70.0
NH Hours: 120.5
VT Birds Moved: 172
NH Birds Moved: 389
Birds Taken:
24 Grouse (VT - 7, NH - 17)
41 Woodcock (VT - 12, NH - 29)

2023: 222.5 Hours
VT Hours: 65.5
NH Hours: 157.0
VT Birds Moved: 143
NH Birds Moved: 430
Birds Taken:
14 Grouse (VT - 4, NH - 10)
43 Woodcock (VT - 7, NH - 36)

2022: 123.0 Hours
VT Hours: 49.5
NH Hours: 73.5
VT Birds Moved: 96
NH Birds Moved: 178
Birds Taken:
11 Grouse (VT - 5, NH - 6)
6 Woodcock (VT - 2, NH - 4)

2021: 193.5 Hours
VT Hours: 66.0
NH Hours: 127.5
VT Birds Moved: 226
NH Birds Moved: 427
Birds Taken:
36 Grouse
21 Woodcock

2020: 199.5 Hours
VT Hours: 36.0
NH Hours: 163.5
VT Birds Moved: 77
NH Birds Moved: 552
Birds Taken:
24 Grouse
21 Woodcock

2019: 184.5 Hours
VT Hours: 28.0
NH Hours: 156.5
VT Birds Moved: 65
NH Birds Moved: 509
Birds Taken:
14 Grouse
29 Woodcock

2018: 144.0 Hours
VT Hours: 32.0
NH Hours: 112.0
VT Birds Moved: 114
NH Birds Moved: 417
Birds Taken:
18 Grouse
12 Woodcock

2017: 180.5 Hours
VT Hours: 44
NH Hours: 136.5
VT Birds moved: 110
NH Birds moved: 407
Birds Taken:
23 Grouse
24 Woodcock

2016: 178 Hours
Birds moved: 563
Birds/Hr Avg.: 3.16

Birds Taken:
23 Grouse
30 Woodcock

2015: 202.0 Hours
Birds moved: 607
Birds/Hr Avg.: 3.0

Birds Taken:
18 grouse
26 woodcock

2014: 138.0 hours
Birds moved: 350
Birds/hr. Avg.: 2.53

Birds Taken:
17 grouse
17 woodcock

2013: 152 Hours
Birds moved: 480
Birds/hr. Avg.: 3.15

Birds Taken:
20 grouse
27 woodcock

2012: 114 Hours
Birds moved: 526
Birds /Hr Avg.: 4.61

Birds Taken:
22 grouse
4 woodcock

2011: 161 Hours
Birds moved: 522
Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.24

Birds Taken:
34 grouse
21 woodcock

2010: 139.5 Hours
Birds moved: 430
Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.08

Birds Taken:
26 grouse
21 woodcock

2009: 93.5 Hours
Birds moved: 307
Birds / Hr Avg.: 3.28

Birds Taken:
16 grouse
14 woodcock

2008: 82.5 Hours
Birds moved: 188
Birds / Hr Avg.: 2.27

Birds Taken:
10 grouse
5 woodcock

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