The Utah Tracker: Sage Grouse Lek

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." ---Theodore Roosevelt 1910

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Sage Grouse Lek

Fall is my favorite time of the year, but spring time in the wild is pretty darn cool too. I came across a sage grouse lek while shed hunting. The males strut and fight like tom turkeys. The hens fly in and pick which male is the most dominant to mate with them. These birds are close to being listed as a endangered species.