While hiking Mt Success a few years ago, I was able to get a male spruce grouse (dark, red eye patches) out of the trail by placing my hiking stick near him and he climbed on it, then he was gently deposited on a nearby branch, where he warily watched us depart. QUOTE]
That has to be the most gentle reaction I've ever read. Thank you!
I was hiking with a group that encountered a raging loon and one of the men in the group attacked it with a stick and chased it into the scrub just below treeline. I was horrified and nauseous. No, I've not hiked with that person again.
