'Hooting' and dancing: Sharp-tailed grouse gather on east Idaho's traditional leks

'Hooting' and dancing: Sharp-tailed grouse gather on east Idaho's traditional leks

A dominant male sharp-tailed grouse with a broken feather on its left side is in a “freeze” position during a dance, on a lek near Rexburg earlier this week. | Bill Schiess, EastIdahoNews.com Even with the wind blowing in a storm, on Wednesday I headed up to a sharp-tailed grouse lek — breeding ground — where I had watched 31 males the week before. After I got to my chosen spot, well before the grouse began arriving, I wondered if I was wasting …