(2) jopped 10' in front of me. She came straight Toward strutting and clicking with tail spread. She advanced to six feet. I could see the bare patches on the side of her neck. The bird seemed very small and rufous brown on the back so might have been an Oregon Ruffed -- I suppose though that they were Ruffy grouse. After I had scared up a young the flew to a bit rapidly straight up. Then she began to click much like the female grouse heard in Idaho. I could not make her move from the tree by noise so threw rocks to make her flush. I hit the bird at his feet, the limb above her and once her tail but she wouldn't move. If I had happened, I hit her head I think I would have had a grouse. Finally the flew high up in the tree of an other accord,