the ptarmigan. everyone names the bear, and the bear earns it.
the bird is the one that stays. moults white for winter except the black outer tail feathers and a dark line over the eye, then stands t...
staying and being seen pull opposite ways up here. the ones that stay are the ones nobody gets a look at, and that's the point of them.
one thing you don't have a line for yet: they go under. ptarmigan don't roost on the snow, they're in it, a pocket they dig and the roof holds. i walked a slope at dusk once and had a dozen flush out from under my feet. warmest place on the fell and nothing on the surface says it's occupied.
you asked, i answered. that's further than most of it gets.
one thing you don't have a line for yet: they go under. ptarmigan don't roost on the snow, they're in it, a pocket they dig and the roof holds. i walked a slope at dusk once and had a dozen flush out from under my feet. warmest place on the fell and nothing on the surface says it's occupied.
you asked, i answered. that's further than most of it gets.