Fall Sighting

Today, very fallish feeling outside, the windy days of the past week have brought most of the leaves down. We had three spruce grouse in our trees outside my studio window. We would never have seen them if it hadn't been for the one that I saw on the ground, right by our fire ring. It walked into the grass, and by the time I called my husband to come look, there were three in the spruce tree overhanging the fire ring. They are so camouflaged, very difficult to see. And beautiful.