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Day 091: Dancing on the Lek!

Every year from April through mid-May the Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge draws for entrance to the photography blind by one of the Sharp-tailed Grouse leks, or breeding dance grounds.  This year Friend Walter and I got to go the first morning.  You have to be in the blind an hour before sunrise, and can’t leave until after the dancing is done.  Dress warmly!

Sharp-tailed Grouse.

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And a bit of video.  It will open in another window.  Remember, I was there to take stills…

Sharp-tailed Grouse dancing on the lek

About half or more of the Grouse had left by the time I took this:

The area in front of the blind

Watch the background for activity

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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