Not much grouse activity to share this September. The birds are spread across the prairie living their best lives and not congregated on a lek as they are in the spring. Christine and I are beginning to plan for the 2026 leking season thinking we will concentrate a little closer to home on Bi-State Sage Grouse which are found in the northeast area of California along the border with Nevada. If weather permits, we will locate and photograph them.  We just finished a new article for the North American Grouse Partnership Annual Magazine with images that we will share with you as soon as it is published. Or better yet, become a member and receive the printed publication mailed directly to your home. A new greater prairie chicken workshop is on the way for 2026! Dates and details will be posted at InvestInNature.org soon. We had multiple opportunities to photograph greater prairie chickens, burrowing owl activity and a few random prairie dogs on the lek this year. It was epic with m...

                                                         Attwater's Prairie Chicken nest photographed at recovery center Sandy here. It is mid-May and most grouse activity at leks are winding down. I dream that all those ladies who are sitting on eggs are safe and a plentiful crop of new grouse are on their way to building the population.  This Spring season found me in Eastern Colorado where we had an epic year photographing the greater prairie chicken on a private ranch. Lots of activity including rare sightings at the lek which added to the experience and amused the guests.  Burrowing owls and black tailed prairie dogs delighted us with their antics. Everyone was able to tell battling grouse stories in addition to owl mating and more. Below is...

  Good news for the Greater Sage Grouse. More than one million acres of essential sage grouse habitat is safe from oil and gas leasing for now. Read more about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision HERE . Learn more about sage grouse habitat and the many other species that occupy these open spaces. Follow and share our blog, Chicks on a Grouse Trip to help spread the word. Join a birding/photography workshop and experience the wildness of grouse for yourself! Join the North American Grouse Partnership and be a key voice for grouse conservation.  Thanks for your support!

The North American Grouse Partnership published our article on the Attwater's Prairie Chicken in its Fall 2024 Annual Report.  

  I just came across this video from Working Lands for Wildlife and thought I'd share. I've been following their work for sometime now and am impressed with the organization. Since Christine and I advocate for all US grouse species, the work by this group seems to have found a way to get things done. Enjoy! Click HERE for the video.

 It has been a whirlwind two weeks on the road in south Texas this spring for Christine and I. We did our best to learn about the federal and state endangered Attwater's prairie chicken.  (Gamma grass and Texas bluebells, prairie habitat for the Attwater's prairie chicken) If you are joining us for the first time or returning to learn more, welcome! Thanks for visiting. This is our fourth year documenting different grouse species, during the breeding season, across the United States. Our goal is to learn all we can about this key species that lives on the vanishing prairie and to bring awareness to our audience. We invite you to check out previous posts to follow our adventures and learn about grouse with us. This year we targeted a subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (GPC) known as the Attwater's prairie chicken (APC) which is found only on the coastal prairie biome of south Texas.  Disclaimer : Our intent is to always bring you stories of "wild & free"...