Happy Holidays Friends! Ohhhh do we have a special edition of Morgan’s Nature Notebook for you – Grouse in the House! Did you know we have four species of grouse in Teton County? Sage grouse get all the attention, but the other three species are pretty cool too! Bonus feature – stay tuned until the end of the episode for our first-ever music video! (We know another 12 Days parody isn’t everyone’s cup of eggnog – no hard feelings if you fast-forward to the finale!) And special thanks to Morgan Graham for spending the last two weekends working on this song – safe to say that seldom few love grouse as much as Morgan.

Sing along with us!

In the ______ Nature Notebook, the Tetons gave to me:

Twelve sharpies stamping

Eleven sage grouse strutting

Ten chokecherries changing

Nine chicka-dee-dees

Eight curlews courting

Seven slopes for skiing

Six moose a-munching

Five Wild rose

Four sparking embers

Three native bees

Two great green gentian,

And a ruffed grouse in a fir tree.

Special thanks to Lang Elliott, Bob McGuire, Zach Andres, and Mark Thonhoff for generously providing additional grouse footage and sounds.