Vicki VanSickle is our preeminent sage grouse blogger. Vicki says, “This is obviously inspired by my favorite book as a child, Dr. Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I tried to get my mom to read it to me every night. I still have the old beat up book.”
One sage grouse
Two sage grouse
I have seen you on your nest
I have seen you as you flush
I have seen you on the lek
I have seen you with your chicks
How many places I have seen you trek?
Still you are a mystery in a vast land
You are inseparable from your sagebrush
You move about from here to there, from there to here
We watch you and wonder why
We may never know we just sigh
We salute your endurance
Yes, we are trying to help
I know there is no assurance
It would be great to pull it off
Time will tell as it always does
When we look back I hope we’re all abuzz
Three sage grouse
Four sage grouse
My how many sage grouse there are!